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Dr. Rhonda Clark, Lead Archivist, is a Professor of Library and Information Science at PennWest Clarion. Dr. Clark studied history and political science as an undergrad and holds a Master’s in Russian and East European Studies, and MLIS, and a Ph.D. in Imperial Russian History. Dr. Clark volunteered extensively translating for Russian and Ukrainian Pentecostals leaving Russia during the 1990s as refugees in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, MN. She studied the Russian protestant church in the Soviet era, as well as women’s intellectual history of the last nineteenth century in Moscow and St. Petersburg. She was married for a few years to a Russian in St. Petersburg and lived with her Russian family while conducting doctoral research. Dr. Clark is an advocate of basic human rights and the need for academics to use their training and opportunity to document and protect vulnerable populations worldwide during periods of political crackdown, warfare, and migration.