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Adrianna currently serves as the Vice President of National Geographic Society’s Special Collections, where she leads a team in stewarding archives, media, and research resources that chronicle more than 135 years of the Society’s history and impact in the world. Over the course of her 25-year career, she has focused on employing digital solutions and an audience-focused mindset to expand access to materials of cultural importance.

Nadia is a Content Operations Specialist, a first-time presenter, professional flowchart-organizer, and self-identified artist/photographer. She specializes in design work, metadata, security, rights management, and digital content delivery.  She has quickly adapted to the rapidly changing media environment and implemented automated systems for digital delivery and rights management.

Jezmynne earned her MLIS from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2002.  Her professional career began as a Science Librarian at the Claremont Colleges, where she focused on embedded librarianship and rethinking end to end information service.  In 2010, she took Directorship of the Portneuf Library, where she led a team of pioneers to rethink collections and services.  In 2017 she launched the Information Management program for the Idaho Transportation Department, managing Records, data and information governance, and the ITIL Knowledge Management processes.

Joe was once a simple library book shelver. Now, he has an MLIS, but brings the same joy at navigating taxonomy errors and mending broken things to his DAM position as asset wrangler at the Simplot company. He focuses on metadata and tactical asset management, assisting users in day-to-day navigation of the DAM and finding just the right thing at the right time. When not up to his eyeballs in recently-uploaded pictures of French fries, Joe enjoys reading, gaming with friends near and far, traveling with his wife, and wandering the storm-drenched forests of the Puget Sound.

Angelina is an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and currently serves as the Cultural Resources Supervisor for the tribe. In her role at the Junaluska Museum, she is responsible for managing archival inventories, conducting research on Cherokee resistance, and contributing to the design development of the museum's upcoming expansion. Angelina began her academic journey at Georgia State University before pursuing a graduate program in Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University.

Kris Lackner is a workflow strategist and digital asset wrangler at Atlassian, focused on building DAM programs that actually work in the real world. With an MLIS from the University of Washington, Kris applies librarian rigor to the messy realities of cross-functional teamwork, governance, and large-scale content operations.