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Partners and Volunteers
Learn more about the talented volunteers, community partners, and library colleagues on the Queens Memory Team.
Natalie Milbrodt
Role: Founder, and past Director
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2010
Queens neighborhood: Jackson Heights
Bridget Bartolini
Role: Interviewer and Artist Collaborator
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2016
Queens neighborhood: South Richmond Hill, Jackson Heights
Melody Cao
Role: Executive Producer for season three of the Queens Memory Podcast
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2021
Queens neighborhood: Flushing
Regina Carra
Role: Interviewer and Contributor, Archivist, Colleague, Collaborator, Cheerleader
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2016
Queens neighborhood: Forest Hills
Jacqueline Colson
Role: Interviewer
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2017
Queens neighborhood: Kew Gardens Hills
Jordan Gass-Pooré
Role: Executive Producer of season two of the Queens Memory Podcast, "The Borough We Became: Queens Residents On Life During COVID-19".
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2020
Queens neighborhood: Long Island City
Peter Gill
Role: Producer for the Nepali episode for season three of the Queens Memory Podcast
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2022
Queens neighborhood: Jackson Heights
Fran Kipnis
Role: Volunteer Interviewer
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2017
Queens neighborhood: Forest Hills
Naomi Kuo
Role: Artist Collaborator
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2017
Queens neighborhood: Flushing
Robin Margolis
Role: Collaborator, advocate for the beauty of its work, and Temporary Community Librarian for March-June 2024
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2018
Queens neighborhood: Rockaway
Obden Mondesir
Role: Oral History Interviewer
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2018
Queens neighborhood: South Jamaica
EunWoo Nam
Role: Artist Collaborator
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2018
Queens neighborhood: Bayside, Queens
Elias Ravin
Role: Composer for three seasons of the Queens Memory podcast
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2017
Queens neighborhood: Elmhurst & Long Island City
Rebecca Rushfield
Role: Oral History Interviewer focusing on Queens College
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2015
Queens neighborhood: Kew Gardens Hills section of Flushing in the shadow of Queens College
Kara Schlichting
Role: NYC Historian, Educator, and Collaborator
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2023
Queens neighborhood: I live in Brooklyn and work in Flushing at Queens College
Briana Kay Stodden
Role: Re-Recording Mixer, Producer
Joined the Queens Memory team in April 2020
Queens neighborhood: Astoria
Johnathan Thayer
Role: I am faculty member of the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. Queens Memory and I have collaborated with graduate students on local public history preservation and presentation work, inside the classroom and out, particularly related to the Olde Towne of Flushing Burial Ground. I am invested in continuing work to connect campus resources to local activists and community groups in preserving local history in Queens from an archival studies and library and information studies perspective.
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2020
Queens neighborhood: Flushing
Daniela Trapani
Role: Interviewer
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2021
Queens neighborhood: Astoria
Anna Williams
Role: I write, produce, and edit the Queens Memory podcast.
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2020
Queens neighborhood: Astoria
Jo-Ann Wong
Role: Member-At-Large. I had assisted with bringing Queens Memory programs into the local Queens Public Library branches. In addition, during the COVID-19 pandemic, I worked to create virtual programs that could both engage and inform our communities about the Queens Memory Project.
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2019
Queens neighborhood: Jackson Heights
Ying Zhou
Role: Volunteer
Joined the Queens Memory team in 2017
Queens neighborhood: Fresh Meadows