I'm a technologically saavy information worker with more than 10 years of experience in libraries, archives, art, and media. I'm passionate about digital archives, all things data, equity-centered pedagogy, critical making/experimentation, public infrastructure, and computing's impact on climate change.
curious about my past work or interested in collaborating?
email me at arielhahn @ ucla.edu
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Data Librarian @ Metro Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA | 2023 to Present
Data Management Librarian @ Cal Poly Pomona
Pomona, CA | 2020 to 2023
Independent Producer and Archival Consultant @ Various
New York, NY & Los Angeles, CA | 2015 to 2020
Community Archives Fellow @ UCLA Community Archives Lab
Los Angeles, CA | 2018 to 2019
Graduate Metadata Assistant @ UCLA Digital Library
Los Angeles, CA | 2018
Associate Producer @ Free History Project
New York, NY | 2015 to 2017
University of California, Los Angeles | MLIS
Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities | 2019
Los Angeles, CA
Mount Holyoke College | BA with Honors
Film Studies, Gender Studies | 2010
South Hadley, MA
CCIDM: Data Wrangling and Visualizaiton (Introduction to R)
Certificate | UCLA | 2022
CalRBS: Queer and Feminist Archival Practices
Certificate | UCLA | 2022
Library Juice Academy: Python for Librarians
Certificate | Virtual | 2022
USC Equity Institute for Equity Minded Teaching
Training | USC Race and Equity Center (Virtual) | 2021
DreamLab: Creative Coding Course
Training | UPenn Libraries and the Price Lab for Digital Humanities (Virtual) | 2021
Library Freedom Institute
Certificate | Library Freedom Project and NYU (Virtual) | 2020
Research Data Management Librarian Academy
Certificate | Simmons University (Virtual) | 2020
Land in Libraries: Toward a Materialist Conception of Education | *Forthcoming 2023*
Refusing growth: cloud technology, climate change, and the future of libraries and archives
Book Chapter | Litwin Books
Research Data Access and Preservation Summit | 2022
Empowering Student Activists through Data Literacy
Presenter | Virtual
Learn@DLF | 2021
Trauma-Informed Approaches to Library Privacy
Workshop Facilitator | Virtual
Library Freedom Project
Research Data Access and Preservation
Digital Library Federation
CSU Digital Archives Working Group (DAWG)
CPP Data Governance Working Gorup (DGWG)
CPP Undergraduate Research Faculty Advisory Committee (URFAC)
CPP University Library Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee