Nominations for 2022-2023 AAO Board of Directors
The AAO’s Nominations Committee is pleased to announce the following slate of candidates for the 2022-2023 Board of Directors, to be voted on by AAO members at the 2022 virtual AGM (Friday, May 27th, 2022). Nominations from the floor during the AGM will also be accepted.
Stay tuned for more information about the virtual AGM in the coming weeks.
VP-President Elect: Sarah McDougall
Sarah McDougall (MI, MMSt) has been a member of the AAO since 2013 and has served as a member of the Advancement Committee since 2019. She was the moderator for the AAO’s "Archival Conversations: Solo Archivists and Small Staff Archives" in 2020 and has been the moderator of the “Safe Spaces for Archival Workers with Disabilities, Chronic Illnesses, and the Neurodivergent” sessions since 2020. She was also the Chair of the ACA Student Chapter at the University of Toronto for the 2015-2016 academic year. Sarah has experience working in the archives and records management fields for government agencies and cultural institutions and is currently the archives assistant at the Anglican Diocese of Toronto Archives.
Director Without Portfolio: Leslie Thomas
Leslie Thomas (formerly Thomas-Smith) has been an Archivist at Western University Archives and Special Collections for 20 years after graduating with a BA in history from the University of Guelph and an MLIS from Western. In addition to having experience in most aspects of archival work, she has presented at AAO conferences and SAA’s research forum. Her main research interests include; increasing the representation of groups traditionally excluded from the archives and intellectual access to collections. She was a member of the ACA’s membership committee and ran the mentorship program for several years. She has been involved with many internal committees during her time at Western, including Western Libraries’ Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion subcommittee since its inception. Currently, she chairs a working group to develop policies and procedures to review and update the language used in legacy archival descriptions. She is passionate about getting more material from members of excluded/underrepresented groups and creating a welcoming and inclusive environment.
We look forward to your participation at the AGM on May 27th.
The AAO 2022 Nominations Committee
