With a background in art history, contemporary art curation and arts administration, Ellen completed their Masters of Information Studies at McGill University in 2022, focusing on archives and exhibitions. Ellen works alongside Ezell on a variety of outreach initiatives, such as photographing our Archival and Special Collections materials, meeting with other organizations to foster collaborations, or brainstorming new ideas with the team, such as our Digital Storytelling (now podcasting) initiative. This is their first podcast. 

Ezell is responsible for the digital side of outreach activities for the Jewish Public Library Archives and Special Collections. She has an art history and classics background and holds a master’s degree in Information Studies from McGill University. Ezell discovered her love of libraries while working as a middle school coordinator, and a guest curatorship with the James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota introduced her to working with special collections, rare books, and artifacts. You can now find her working at the JPL alongside her Outreach colleague, Ellen, awkwardly stuffed inside a photo light box or basking in the glow of her laptop, dreaming up new content for JPL’s Archive and Special Collections materials. This is her first podcast.