SAA - Emerging Leader Award

Organization: Society of American Archivists

Created in 2011, this award celebrates and encourages early-career archivists who have completed archival work of broad merit, demonstrated significant promise of leadership, and/or performed commendable service to the archives profession. Nominees will have more than two years and less than ten years of professional archives experience. Nominees must be SAA members and must meet as many of the following criteria as possible: Work of merit that has made a substantive contribution to an area (or areas) of the archives profession beyond the nominee's local institution and that holds promise for future contributions; Demonstrated leadership through collaborative work or exemplary service to local, regional, and/or national archival and cultural associations; Formal archival education through a graduate degree program in history, library science, information science, or a related field; through participation in an archival or preservation institute; and/or through certification by the Academy of Certified Archivists; Involvement in successful outreach and advocacy efforts on behalf of the nominee's institution and the archives profession.