Brenda Flora is the Curator of Moving Images and Recorded Sound at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. She became the Center’s first audiovisual archivist in 2010, and has been responsible for creating and implementing AV policy and overseeing numerous grant-funded projects in that time. She holds a Master’s degree in Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia. She currently serves as co-chair of AMIA’s Advocacy Committee of the Board.