GRACEN BRILMYER email: [email protected] EDUCATION Dept. of Information Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, 2016 - Present Doctoral Student The School of Information, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, 2014 - 2016 Master of Information and Management Systems The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL , 2004 - 2008 Bachelors in Fine Arts Concentration: Animation and Printmaking Chicago Park District, 2010 Course: American Sign Language Folkuniversitetet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009 Certificate in Intermediate (B1) Swedish WORK & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Department of Information Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 2016 - Present Graduate Student Researcher: Michelle Caswell Organize, design and conduct focus groups for the users of community archives; organize logistics, provide technical support and implement accessibility foundations for the Diversifying the Digital Historical Record Forum at UCLA, October 2014; conduct literature reviews and write research summaries for future publications on project research findings Center for the Study of Women, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 2016 - Present Graduate Student Researcher Organize Chemical Entanglements Working Group; conduct research on the connections between gender and endocrine disrupting chemicals and the gendered impact of chemical, more broadly; organized the Chemical Entanglements Symposium Information Studies 2017-18 Colloquia Series, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 2016 - Present Co-Organizer Design, outreach, and organize a year long speaker series, hosting over 15 scholars, activists, artists, and practitioners primarily focusing on intersectional and social justice issues; design all promotional materials And Also Too, Toronto, ON 2015 - 2016 Project Manager & Designer Assist in conceptualizing and designing multiple projects for both digital and print production, primarily for social justice causes; develop data visualizations for a report on solitary confinement of youth populations in Ontario (using Processing framework); conduct user research interviews and evaluations to improve data collection and user experience; learn front- and back-end technologies to build a digital archive for social justice graphics Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA, 2014 - 2016 Research Assistant Organize and manage historic data digitization project, working with curators, collection managers and field station managers; design web search interface for CalBug (calbug.berkeley.edu) digitization project at the Essig Museum of Entomology; train and manage 10 interns on specimen digitization and curation page 1/2 WORK & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE cont. The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, 2011-2014 Research Assistant Conceptualized, designed and managed digitization initiative for over 2 million museum specimens; designed voice-recognition databasing protocols; performed bulk data imports and exports and created relational data models; trained and managed 20 interns and volunteers; designed educational and outreach materials Oregon State Collection, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 2010-2011 Digitization Specialist Designed museum databasing and imaging protocols; hired, trained, and managed a team of 15 student workers in data collection and image capturing in Adobe Lightroom, Microsoft Excel and Drupal; produced high resolution images of museum specimens

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC, 2010 Special Assignment through Oregon State University Digitization Specialist Researched, located and imaged Melville Hatch type specimens in-house at the Smithsonian’s collection; designed efficient imaging workflow; navigated collection to locate specimens; recorded data

Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2009 Research Assistant Digitized water beetle specimens; databased historic and contemporary collection information for a new species description for publication

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2009 Guest Lecturer Course: The World - Lectured on the importance and use of biological collections and digital archives as well as my personal trajectory of translating concepts from my arts background to scientific research practice; taught specimen identification and preparation; led insect collecting trips

The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, 2008-2010 Research Assistant Disarticulated and took high resolution images of beetle specimens for taxonomic review; sorted and organized collection samples; curated and databased subsets of the museum’s insect collection PUBLICATIONS Caswell, M. with graphic design by: Brilmyer, Gracen. (In Press). “Teaching to Dismantle White Supremacy in Archives.” The Library Quarterly. Brilmyer, Gracen. “CalBug and Its Search Interface Redesign.” In The Discipline of Organizing, by Robert J. Glushko, 589–93, 3rd ed. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2015. Bergsten, Johannes, Gracen Brilmyer, Alex Crampton-Platt, and Anders Nilsson. “Sympatry and Colour Variation Disguised Well-Differentiated Sister Species: Suphrodytes Revised with Integrative Including 5 Kbp of Housekeeping Genes (Coleoptera: ) (PDF Download Available).” DNA Barcodes 1 (November 2012): 1–18. doi:10.2478/dna-2012-0001. Gonzáles, Jorge, James H. Boone, Gracen Brilmyer, and Daniel Lee. “Computerization of the Field Museum of Natural History Giant Butterfly Moth Collection (Castniidae).” News of the Lepidopterists’ Society 38, no. 2 (2010): 72–73. ———. “The Giant Butterfly-moths of the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, with notes on the Herman Strecker collection.” SHILAP Revista de Lepidopterología 38, no. 152 (2010): 385–409. Boone, James H., Gracen Brilmyer, and Michael Kippenhan. “Computerization of the Field Museum of Natural History Tiger Beetle Collection.” Cicindela 40, no. 4 (2008): 69–70. Gracen Brilmyer page 2/4 INVITED SEMINARS

The Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI), Toronto, ON, A Political/Relational Archival Approach: Applying Disability Studies’ Political/Relational to Archival Studies, Upcoming: July 2017

Media Justice: Race, borders, disability and data, International Communications Association (ICA) Preconference, San Diego, CA, Problematizing Notions of Accessibility in the Digital Archive, Upcoming: May 2017

Disability as Spectacle, Los Angeles, CA, Preservation: Chemical Consumption in Natural History, April 13-14 2017 Feminist Translations / Queer Mobilities Symposium, Berkeley, CA, Queering the Digital Archive: Accessibility of Information, December 2014

International Union for the Study of Social , Cairns, Australia, The Impact of Climatic Changes on Ant Distributions, July 2014

Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI - Fluid-preserved Invertebrate Imaging Workshop, Conceptualizing and Implementing Large Scale Collection Digitization, September 2013

Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio), Chicago, IL - Digitizing Dried Insects Digitization Workshop, Leica High-Resolution Imaging System Demo, April 2013

AWARDS Graduate Summer Research Mentorship (GSRM) Award, UCLA | 2017 For archival research at The Field Museum of Natural History to explore traces of disability in natural history as well construction of narratives around cultural and biological difference.

The Center for Technology, Society & Policy Fellowship, UC Berkeley, November 2015 Fellow Awarded for collaboration with And Also Too in the development of a digital archive of social justice-themed graphics available for use and modification by community organizers, designers, and artists

School of Information Non-Profit Internship Grant, UC Berkeley, May 2015 Awardee Awarded maximum amount to collaborate with And Also Too on designing the Systemic Review of Secure Isolation in Ontario Youth Justice Facilities

Gracen Brilmyer page 3/4 VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE Disability and Sexuality Studies Working Group, UC Berkeley, 2014 - 2016 Founder, Co-Organizer Organize monthly meetings to engage the broader East Bay community in disability scholarship and activism; curate readings to more deeply engage with current events, screenings, and performances

Information Management Student Association, UC Berkeley, 2014 - 2016 Social Justice Chair Lead the first service initiative that focuses on increasing accessibility and incorporating and underrepresented perspectives into student events; aggregate technology-based opportunities for community engagement; organize student volunteer outings

Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA, 2014 - 2016 Computer Docent Facilitate library patrons in developing basic computer skills such as learning word processing and completing on-line applications

Disability Incarcerated: A Symposium, UC Berkeley, March 2015 Volunteer Assisted in setting up event, directing speakers, and making sure participants had access needs met

Women in Science, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, 2012-2014 Steering Committee Member, Internship Program Coordinator Organized and lead a team to establish internship program hosting high school and undergraduate students; facilitated interns engaging museum visitors in scientific research; co-organize speaker series; organize symposium accessibility and American Sign Language interpreters

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