LaToya Devezin

Archives Specialist, Digital Engagement Division

National Archives and Records Administration

Biographical Statement

LaToya Devezin is an Archives Specialist for the Office of Innovation's Description Team for the Digital Engagement Division of the National Archives and Records Administration and a certified archivist. Prior to joining the Digital Engagement Division, she worked as an Archivist for the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum of the National Archives and Records Administration in Atlanta, GA for five years. In addition to her work at the Carter Library, she's also worked on NARA projects with the Digital Preservation Division and with the National Archives Museum redesign. Before her relocation to Georgia in 2018, she was the African American Community Archivist for the Austin History Center of the Austin Public Library. She moved to Austin from her hometown of New Orleans, LA, where she managed the African American Resource Center for the New Orleans Public Library. She has a graduate certificate in Women and Gender Studies from Western Kentucky University, an M.L.I.S. in Archives Management from Louisiana State University, an M.A. in Museum Studies from Southern University, and a B.A. in Music Performance from Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, VA. Devezin loves community archives, preserving cultural heritage, digital engagement, conducting outreach to increase public knowledge about archives and historic preservation, and is committed to grooming the next generation of archivists, librarians, and museum professionals as an information studies professor.

Candidate Statement

I've served as a member of SGA's Program Committee for the last two years, and I am excited to run as the 2024 Assistant Program Committee Chair. I look forward to continuing my work with the Program Committee and helping to steward SGA's strategic goals. As Assistant Program Chair, I hope to increase attendance at our annual meeting, aid in seeing the diversity of the archivists in our profession reflected at our annual meeting, and improve professional development opportunities for archivists in our region.

Slate of Candidates

The Nominating Committee has slated the following SGA members as candidates for office in the 2024 election:

Vice President/President-Elect

• Tamara Livingston,                       Kennesaw State University

Assistant Program Committee Chair (Annual Meeting)

• LaToya Devezin,                       National Archives and Records Administration

• Stephanie McBride,                       University of North Georgia (student)

• Brittany Newberry,                       Georgia State University

Assistant Local Arrangements Committee Chair (Annual Meeting) 

• shady Radical,                      T.R.A.P./Spelman College

Archivist

• Virginia Blake,                       Wesleyan College

• Jasmaine Talley,                       Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library

• Kersten Toebben,                       Georgia Archives

Nominating Committee    Member 1

• Robin Klemm,                                  Georgia Archives

• Kelly Zacovic,                                  City of Savannah Municipal Archives

Nominating Committee    Member 2

• Monet Lewis-Timmons,                   University of Delaware (Graduate Student)

• Mike Santrock,                          Fulton County Schools Archives