Valerie Komor has long experience in libraries, archives and museums. In 2003, she established the first corporate archives for the Associated Press. Valerie holds a B.A. in English and Classics from the University of California, Davis, an M.A. in Medieval Studies from Yale and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Texas at Austin. During 1987-88, she held a Fulbright Grant in Naples, Italy in the field of Italian journalism.