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Board + Staff

As AMIA’s governing body, the Board focuses on the organization’s mission, strategy, resources, and goals.

Elected by the membership, AMIA’s nine member board serve as volunteers steering the organization towards a sustainable future through sound governance and financial management policies, as well as making sure the organization has adequate resources to advance its mission.  AMIA’s staff works closely with the Board, committees, and members to implement the mission.

Board Of Directors

Andrea Leigh

Library of Congress

AMIA President (2026-2027)

Andrea Leigh retired as the Moving Image Processing Unit Head at the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation in 2025. Previously, she was a cataloger at the UCLA Film & Television Archive and held positions at the UCLA Library, Cal State University at Northridge, Walt Disney Company and Creative Artists Agency. She has an M.L.I.S in Information Studies and B.A. in Theatre Arts from UCLA.  

Randal Luckow

Warner Bros. Discovery

AMIA Treasurer (2024-2026)

Randal Luckow is the director, Global Archives & Preservation Services at Warner Bros. Discovery. Past positions include Director of HBO Archives, Sr. Director of Metadata & Media Services at Turner, and a manager at DreamWorks, SKG Archives. Randal currently serves on the AMIA Board.

Ashley Franks-McGill

Duplitech

AMIA Secretary (2024-2026)

Film Services Manager at Duplitech, Ashley oversees film remastering workflows. Introduced to the field was through an internship at Oddball Films, she received hands-on training in film preservation and access, while also studying Collections Management in the dual degree Museum Studies/Business Administration program at John F. Kennedy University.

Karin Carlson-Snider

Northeast Historic Film

AMIA Board of Directors (2026-2027)

Karin Carlson-Snider is the Vault Manager at Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, Maine. She has been at the archive for almost 15 years during which time she has worked on several grant funded digitization projects focused on home movies and television news and programming.

Daniela Currò

Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina

AMIA Board of Directors (2023-2027)

Daniela Currò is Director of Moving Image Research Collections at the University of South Carolina. She formerly served as Director and Head Curator of Cineteca Nazionale, the Italian National Film Archive, Preservation Manager at the George Eastman Museum, and Film Preservation Specialist at Haghefilm laboratories. She has taught at the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation and at universities in Europe and in the United States.

Allyson Nadia Field

University of Chicago

AMIA Board of Directors (2026-2027)

Allyson Nadia Field is Associate Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Fundamentals, and the College, Affiliated Faculty of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC) and the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality (CSGS).

Mike Mashon

Library of Congress [Ret]

AMIA Board of Directors (2024-2026)

Mike Mashon led the Library of Congress Moving Image Section from 2005 until his retirement in 2023. His was a circuitous journey into moving image archiving and preservation, having begun his professional career as an immunologist. Mike has an M.A. in Radio-Television-Film from the University of Texas and a Ph.D in the same area of study from the University of Maryland.

Brian Meacham

Yale Film Archive

AMIA Board of Directors (2023-2025)

As Managing Archivist at the Yale Film Archive, Brian oversees acquisition, inspection, cataloging, preservation, and access for the archive's film collection. Brian began work in the field at the Harvard Film Archive, worked at the Academy Film Archive, has been a member of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives since 2015, and teaches a graduate course on film archiving in the Yale Film & Media Studies program.

Aparna Subramanian

Audiovisual Archiving Consultant

AMIA Board of Directors (2024-2026)

Aparna Subramanian is a Fulbright fellow and alumni of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. An accomplished professional with a background in media preservation, collection management, and archival administration, she has 15 years of experience working in India and USA.

Kimberly Tarr

NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program

AMIA Board of Directors (2024-2026)

Kimberly Tarr is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Cinema Studies and serves as the Associate Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program. For more than a decade, she has been responsible for developing strategies to ensure the long-term care of film, video, and audio collections held in NYU Libraries and Special Collections, managing the media preservation program's operations and overseeing the digitization labs.

Code of Conduct Liaisons

The Code of Conduct reflects AMIA’s commitment to provide an environment in which diverse participants may learn, network and enjoy the company of colleagues in an environment of mutual human respect – in all spaces, including online, at events, in committee work, or list serves.

The 2025 Code of Conduct Board Liaisons are Mike Mashon, Aparna Subramanian, and Laura Treat.

AMIA Code of Conduct

Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Liaisons

Committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as core values, each year the Board asks for volunteers and appoints a Board member(s) to serve as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Liaison. The liaison ensures that AMIA continues in its goal to cultivate an environment in which a multiplicity of voices are sought, listened to, and respected, and in which the development of cultural competence is a priority.

 

Board Liaisons

Each Board member serves as a liaison with AMIA’s Committees, working groups, and task forces. Board Liaisons provide a clear and direct line of communication between chairs and the Board, bringing committee issues to the Board and Association issues to the committees when needed, and assisting with quarterly and annual reports, rosters, and other needs of the committees.

Staff

Laura Rooney

Managing Director

lrooney@amianet.org

Kristina Kersels

Events and Operations Manager

Kkersels@amianet.org

Beverly Graham

Membership Manager

Bgraham@amianet.org

Contact the Board at
AMIAPresident@amianet.org
or at AMIA@amianet.org

AMIA Office
1313 Vine Street
Los Angeles, CA 90028
323.463.1500
amia@amianet.org

 

 

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