Dear colleagues,


Please see the announcement below encouraging nominations for SAA's
Emerging Leaders Award. Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague,
and share widely.


Nominate yourself or a colleague for SAA’s Emerging Leader Award!

Are you in the early stages of an archives career (2-10 years of
experience) and do you demonstrate excellence in leadership? Do you have an
archives colleague that exhibits great leadership skills? Please consider
nominating them or yourself for the Society of American Archivists' Mark A.
Greene Emerging Leader Award.
<https://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-emerging-leader>


The nomination deadline is February 28, 2025.

Awarded for the first time in 2012 and renamed in 2017, the Mark A. Greene
Emerging Leader Award celebrates and encourages early-career archivists who
have completed archival work of broad merit, demonstrated significant
promise of leadership, performed commendable service to the archives
profession, or a combination of the above. Nominees must have more than two
years and less than ten years of professional archives experience at the
time of nomination. The award is given based on the total experience and
contributions of the awardee, including knowledge, leadership,
participation, and achievements in the profession.

For more information on award criteria and eligibility, as well as access
to the nomination form, follow this link:
https://app.smarterselect.com/programs/45673-Society-Of-American-Archivists

On behalf of the Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader Award Subcommittee, thank
you!
--
Jen Wachtel Litwin (she/her)
Archivist, Archival Operations Division (Vice Presidential Collections)
National Archives and Records Administration

Member, SAA Mark A. Greene Emerging Leaders Awards Subcommittee
Member, DLF Born-Digital Access Working Group, Visioning Access Systems