Dee Psaila

M.A., Photographic Preservation and Collections Management, Toronto Metropolitan University/GEH

A graduate of the first cohort of students from the PPCM program, Dee is well known for her work with practical preservation of collections. As Special Projects Manager, Archives of Ontario, she is well versed on the issues of preservation management and caring for large groups of archival materials. Her speciality is custom container construction and design for archival collections and small institutions. She has taught workshops for first and second year PPCM students for the past few years at Toronto Metropolitan University and George Eastman House. Other work includes reviewing photographic objects and constructing containers in the travelling Save Our African American Treasures program, through the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (set to open in 2015 in Washington D.C.), in Charleston, SC; Atlanta, GA; Topeka, KS; Detroit, MI; Dallas, TX; and Indianola, MS.