Emily Moran serves as Vanguard’s Digital Archivist, supporting the development, organization, and stewardship of digital collections across Vanguard’s archival and cultural heritage projects. Her work includes contributing to the development of digital collections and supporting digital access, description, and preservation initiatives.

Emily is also the Southern Network Archivist for the National Park Service, where she assists 12 parks across the Mojave Desert and Mediterranean Coast. She holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MS in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University. Her experience spans university and college archives, government repositories, national parks, and community archives.

Emily’s commitment to archival work is rooted in a passion for more just representation within the historical record. Her path into the field began as an undergraduate, when she used primary source collections from colleges, universities, historical societies, and community centers in her thesis research. She later completed an archives fellowship at Hampshire College and worked as a contract archivist for the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Bryce Canyon National Park. At Vanguard, she brings this breadth of experience to the development of accessible, well-described, and sustainably stewarded digital collections.