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My spring 2026 internship at the Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) transformed how I understand archives, not just as repositories of documents, but as tangible connections between the past and the people who preserve and learn from them.

I came in as a Political Science major and English minor at Brooklyn College, with two years of research fellowships behind me. I had fallen in love with research during my sophomore year, but I had always been on the receiving end of archival work. Reading the sources, never thinking much about who organized the material or why. When I spotted the RAC internship in my college newsletter, I wanted to find out what happens on the other side.

I started slowly, watching RAC 101 orientation videos about the RAC’s preservation strategies and security protocols. It was a low-pressure way to get my footing, and I really appreciated it, as it allowed me to introduce myself to the RAC, too. Once I settled in, the hands-on work came quickly.

Over the past year and a half, we’ve been working on a join project with Columbia University to develop the application we call the Fluxx Exporter. You can read more about it in a series of blog posts by Hillel Arnold and Hannah Sistrunk about its initial release, testing the UX, releasing an updated version, and releasing the last major version 3.0. In short, this application helps our donors export digital grant records from the grants management system Fluxx. After a round of open testing, we released Fluxx Exporter Version 2, which updated the application to make it easier for users to install and get up and running. This release bundle the application into Unix and Windows executables for ease of use.

Unfortunately, that’s when best practice and security compliance reared its head.

We just released version 3.0 of Fluxx Exporter, an open-source tool that integrates with the Fluxx grants management system to allow users to select and export grant information for internal or external uses including long-term preservation, researcher access, and organizational learning and evaluation. The changes to this version of the application are focused largely on simplifying installation and initial setup.

A team of four with mixed expertise ran a rigorous web accessibility audit of 16 Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) sites while supporting learning about digital accessibility across the organization. In this post, I’ll walk through our process and key takeaways from the project.

In May 2025, Director of Archives Bob Clark, Associate Director Hillel Arnold, and Processing Archivists Darren Young and Katie Martin spent three days in Brussels, Belgium, packing and inventorying the RAC’s first collection from an international organization based outside of the United States: The Union of International Associations (UIA).