Austin History Center
Ayshea is the Asian American Community Archivist for the Austin History Center, where she works to document, preserve, and provide access to the history of Asian American communities in Austin. She holds a Bachelor’s in Cinema Production & Photography from Ithaca College and a MSIS from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. Specializing in audiovisual collections, she has worked at organizations such as the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, American Genre Film Archive, Louis Black Productions and the Señal 3 public access station in Santiago de Chile. She is the Co-Chair of the Archivists` Collective for the South Asian American Digital Archive and was a track coordinator for the 2017 Disrupting Mainstream History track at the Allied Media Conference. She is passionate about media education for youth, and has been a Filmmaking Mentor for the Austin Film Society since 2012. She was part of the coordinating team for the 2018 Breaking Library Silos Workshop in Austin.