WORK WITH ME

Allison is available for Digital Archiving consulting + gigs, Archival Producing, Workshop Facilitation, Class Lectures/Presentations, Salesforce Administration, and Creative Project Management work.

Read below for more details + examples of previous projects // EMAIL ME: allisonelliott4@gmail.com.

Digital Archiving

Need a professional archivist to assess, digitize, curate, or activate your collection? With over three years of experience in digital archiving, Allison brings both technical skill and curatorial insight to every project. In her role at TFI, she has contributed to building archival workflows, preservation and data storage models, organizational-wide stylistic guides for metadata, and launch plans (including press, social media, creative accompaniments) for collections in the TFI Digital Archive. She is competent in digitizing VHS, Hi-8, miniDV tapes, audiocassettes, optical media (CD-R/DVD-R), 3.5″ floppy disks, websites, film, photographs, and paper materials.

PROJECTS: TFI Digital Archive [description, digitization, data management, collection launches, 2022-present].

archival producing

Looking to incorporate archival material in your upcoming documentary, film, or creative project? Allison is an Archival Producer with a specialization in cultural and social justice works. She has a wide-range of experience, from researching individual photographers archival collections, to scouring Getty databases, and finding footage from local News Stations. Beyond her contextual knowledge of these material sources, Allison ensures every asset is properly licensed, credited, and budgeted—delivering a seamless archival process from start to finish.

PROJECTS: Here Come the Dykes [The New Yorker, 2025], No Justice, Find Peace [Independent, forthcoming].

workshop facilitator

Interested in adding a workshop to your cultural programming or professional development offerings?Allison has designed facilitated over a dozen sessions on archival concepts, ethical considerations, digitizing tapes, and more. She also regularly lectures in undergraduate and graduate classes to share her knowledge about feminist and queer histories, and archival practices.

PROJECTS:
The Impact of Digital Technology and Creating Public Access for Creating Archives, Roundtable Discussion [presentation, 2025], Ethical Digitization Considerations with Archivists Roundtable and METRO [facilitator, 2024], Attention Collectors: Wikimedia Commons Needs You! [facilitator, 2024], Digitizing VHS, Hi-8, and Mini-DV Tapes [facilitator, 2024], Memory Labs as Participatory Archival Spaces: A Feminist Perspective with Counter-Archive [facilitator, 2023], Personal Digital Archiving with XFR Collection [facilitator, 2023].

creative project management

Are you producing your next cultural program or event? Allison has produced multiple Pop-Up Memory Labs for large scale digitization and archival programming, as well as stand-alone workshops, round table talks, and smaller-scale digitization events. From equipment installation + troubleshooting, workflow development, program design, and outreach strategy, Allison brings a creative, comprehensive and solutions-oriented approach to every project.

PROJECTS::Queer Legacies Project [2025], TFI Pop-Up Memory Lab [2023, 2024], TFI Pop-Up Memory Lab Showcase Evening: Creative Archival Works [2024].

salesforce administration / DATA MANAGEMENT

Ready to streamline your data systems for smarter strategy and reporting? Allison is a Salesforce Associate Certified data professional with over three years of experience. Her work includes adopting and customizing new instances, UAT testing, building dashboards and reports to support grantmaking and fundraising, day-to-day troubleshooting, and designing internal support systems for staff.

PROJECTS: Bob Woodruff Foundation, Salesforce Associate [2024-present].