Charla Wilson, Archivist for the Black Experience at Northwestern University Libraries, has an “Up-and-Comers” feature in the October issue of the MAC Newsletter.

In her article, Charla discusses the origins and uniqueness of her position at Northwestern and how she has helped document and preserve the history and presence of black students, faculty, staff, and alumni at NU.

You can read the article here:MAC Newsletter.pdf

MAC members can access the full issue here.

Hathaway Hester, archivist at the National Association of Realtors, did an interview earlier this month for Real Estate Today, a nationally-syndicated radio show and podcast about the real estate industry.

She talks about Chicago Open Archives, NAR’s Archives, and American Archives Month in the interview.

The whole show can be found here.

Hathaway’s segment is also on Soundcloud here.

Cathy Popovitch of the Illinois State Archives was recently awarded a Victoria Irons Walch Emerging Leader Award. Popovitch received the award at this year’s CoSA/SAA/NAGARA joint meeting in Washington D.C.

The purpose of the award is to “encourage the development of an emerging leader in state and territorial archives.” As part of the award, recipients receive a travel stipend to attend the annual CoSA meeting. Eligible nominees are individuals who have worked in a state or territorial archives less than five (5) years and have never attended a CoSA Annual Meeting.

Congratulations to Charla, Hathaway, and Cathy!

Are you publishing, presenting, organizing, or otherwise working on something professionally awesome? Let us know about it! Email info@chicagoarchivists.org or the co-chairs of the Outreach and Member Engagement Subcommittee: Brittan Nannenga (brittan.nannenga@northwestern.edu) and Jill Waycie (j-waycie@northwestern.edu).