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Melissa Dollman earned a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in American Studies, and an MA in Moving Image Archiving Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has worked professionally as an audiovisual archivist, adjunct faculty, fellow, exhibit developer, and researcher for a number of cultural heritage institutions, and was a director of the board for AMIA (2016-2020). At present, she is the digital projects manager/archivist for the Tribesourcing Southwest Film, co-founder of Deserted Films, a home movie archive in Palm Springs, CA, co-chair of AMIA's Publications Committee, and a board director for the Al Larvick Conservation Fund.