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Rebecca Short, Metadata Fellow, is an MLIS candidate at San José State University’s School of Information with a background in media production and storytelling. As a television editor for over 15 years for networks such as TLC, BRAVO, and ABC, she has focused on stories that reflect the diversity of the human experience. As such, she is deeply interested in archives and the stories we tell as we reckon with history and identity. Rebecca currently works as a Page at the Burbank Public Library, and contributes to digital and archival projects including the Theodore Roosevelt Center and the Ukrainian Libraries in Wartime Initiative, where she focuses on metadata creation, image preservation, and workflow design. As part of this work she has designed promotional materials for Ukraine fundraisers and compiled a zine of children’s artwork and poetry reflecting their experiences of war. She holds a BA in Film from Vassar College with a minor in Art History.