Personal Archives and Public History
Much of the most important cultural history doesn’t live in institutions. It lives in personal archives. Photographs never published. Letters never cataloged. Stories carried quietly by families for decades.
I work with individuals, families, and estates who have been entrusted with historically significant personal archives and are ready to bring them forward thoughtfully and responsibly. My role is to help assess, research, contextualize, and shape these materials into narratives that can enter the public record without losing their human core.
I have worked with personal archives connected to Patti Daley, an overlooked but foundational figure in early rock and roll, previously unknown Amelia Earhart photographs and personal items, and the family of the real “Marty Supreme” when they chose to share ping pong legend Marty Reisman’s story publicly for the first time. I am currently working with the private personal archive of Oliver Evans, one of playwright Tennessee Williams’ closest friends.

