Jennifer Whitlock

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Jennifer Whitlock

Since 2013, Jennifer Whitlock has been the first and only archivist for the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. Before coming to RIT, Jennifer initiated an archives program for the Indianapolis Museum of Art, served as a project archivist and interim acting curator at the Architecture & Design Collection at University of California Santa Barbara, and also worked as an Assistant Librarian at the Portland Art Museum. She holds a Master of Liberty Science with an Archives Certificate from Emporia State University and a BA in Photography from Webster University. She is also a Certified Archivist through the Academy of Certified Archivists and a Digital Archives Specialist through the Society of American Archivists. As a self-proclaimed “design preserver,” Jennifer works relentlessly to promote archives to designers and design to archivists.