Board
These are the elected members of the SCA Board for 2026-2027.
Azalea Camacho, President
president@calarchivists.org
Azalea Camacho serves as the Head of Special Collections and Archives at Cal State LA. She oversees the department's operations from archival processing, instruction, reference, public services, outreach, collection development, and maintenance. She holds an MLIS with a concentration in archival studies from San Jose State University and a BS in Communications from Cal Poly Pomona. Her dedication lies in strengthening community partnerships and fostering student engagement within the field.
Mallory Furnier, Vice-President/President Elect
vicepresident@calarchivists.org
Mallory Furnier is the Special Collections & Archives Librarian at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), and previously worked at CSUN as the Archivist for the Urban Archives and Old China Hands Archives. Prior to joining the team at CSUN, Mallory spent seven years working with archival collections at the Library and Archives of the Autry Museum. She also worked in a temporary, part-time project position at Glendale Public Library, and as an intern at the Museums of Old York. She holds an MLIS from San Jose State University, an MA in History with a focus in Archival Administration from CSUN, and a BA in History from University of California, Santa Barbara. She previously served on the Society of California Archivists' Board as Board Member-at-Large, as co-Chair of the SCA Education Committee, and in a number of leadership roles with Los Angeles as Subject.
Joanna Black, Secretary
secretary@calarchivists.org
Joanna (JoJo) Black is the Senior Archivist at the William E. Colby Memorial Library at Sierra Club’s national offices in Oakland, CA. In that role, she oversees and safeguards both analog and digital archival collections held at the library, including duties related to collection management, collection development, preservation, and system administration. Prior to working for the Sierra Club, she served as the Director of Archives & Special Collections at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society in San Francisco and the Manuscripts Processing Assistant at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. She holds a BA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree from UCLA in library and information science with a specialization in archival studies. From 2016-2019, she served as Chair of the SCA Publications Committee as well as Chair of SAA's Issues & Advocacy Section from 2019-2020.
Kate Dundon, Treasurer
treasurer@calarchivists.org
Kate Dundon is the Supervisory Archivist for Special Collections & Archives at the University of California Santa Cruz, where she oversees archival collection management including accessioning, processing, and born-digital stewardship. She earned an MA in Archives and Public History from New York University, and an MLIS from Long Island University. She has served on SCA's Board as a Member-at-large and on the SCA Development Committee, SAA's Membership Committee, and the National Best Practices for Archival Accessioning Working Group.
Jessica Gambling, Membership Director
membership@calarchivists.org
Jessica Gambling has been the University Archivist and Records Manager at the University of Southern California since January 2024. She previously spent over 13 years as Museum Archivist at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She received her MLIS from the UCLA in 2007 and then held positions as project archivist at the Huntington Library and Los Angeles Public Library. In her free time she enjoys being a Lecturer and Consulting Archivist in the College of Environmental Design Archives and Special Collections at Cal Poly Pomona. She has served as Vice-Chair for Member Initiated Events on SCA’s Membership Committee, as Co-Chair of SCA’s Records Management Task Force, and on the Executive Committee of L.A. as Subject as Outreach and Publicity Lead and later as Chair.
Stella Castillo, Board Member-at-Large
membersatlarge@calarchivists.org
Stella Castillo is the Processing Archivist in the University of Southern California Libraries. Previously, Stella was the LA as Subject Community Archives Specialist, collaborating with L.A. as Subject members to increase online discoverability and public engagement with Los Angeles archival collections. Stella has also worked in USC’s Digital Library, on the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project, and served as an L.A. as Subject Resident Archivist working within wide-ranging archival collections across Los Angeles County. She holds a Masters degree in Library and Information Science and a Bachelor of Arts in the Study of Religion both from UCLA. Stella previously served on SCA’s Local Arrangements Committee in 2019 and on the Program Committee in 2025.
Christina Fidler, Board Member-at-Large
membersatlarge@calarchivists.org
Christina Velazquez Fidler is the Head of Digital Collections at The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, where she manages the born-digital archives and digitization programs. She also teaches website preservation at Wayne State University. She has previous work experience as a software implementation consultant, as the museum archivist at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley, and prior to her current role, she served as the digital archivist at The Bancroft Library. She received her MLIS from San José State University in 2010. Christina previously served on SCA’s Membership Committee from 2022-2025.
Sue Luftschein, Immediate Past-President
past-president@calarchivists.org
Sue Luftschein is currently Head of Special Collections in the USC Libraries. She received her MLIS from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Prior to arriving at USC, she worked at the Huntington Library, and in the Institutional Records and Archives Department of the J. Paul Getty Trust. She has served on SCA’s Program, Local Arrangements, Publications, Nominating, and Western Archives Institute Management Committees, and was a Member-at-Large, 2020-2022. She is also currently a member of SAA’s Standards Committee; has served on SAA’s Technical Subcommittee for Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS), of which she was co-chair 2019-2021; and was a member of the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, 2019-2021. She was also a member of the OCLC Working Group on Collection Building and Operational Impact that produced the Total Cost of Stewardship report.
