Alicia Coombs is Executive Director for the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) in Austin, TX. She received a BA in Film Studies from Hampshire College where she focused on the topic of gender in horror and exploitation cinema, and her advisors failed at dissuading her from having the title "Sex, Blood and Celluloid" on her transcript. She has worked as a projectionist, script reader, production coordinator and accountant in film and television and co-programmer of monthly repertory screenings at Alamo Drafthouse. Experience in film handling led her to volunteering with AGFA at a time when the archive was rapidly expanding, and her unique background primed her for a full time position handling accounting and business affairs for the archive.