The Nominating Committee is pleased to announce the results of the 2025 NEA election, which was held December 5-18, 2025. We had a voter turnout of 36%. Thank you to all of the candidates who ran this year and to everyone who voted.
The following have been elected by the membership and will join the Executive Board on March 21, 2026:
Vice-President/President-Elect: Margaret Dalton
Representative at Large: Sally Blanchard-O’Brien
Secretary: Molly Brown
Treasurer-Elect: Heather Mumford
Congratulations to the newly elected officers, and please join us in welcoming them to their roles at the Spring 2026 Meeting in Portland, ME this March! See the bottom of this message for a brief introduction to each newly elected officer.
If you are interested in getting involved with NEA governance on a committee or in an appointed role, visit our website to learn more about volunteer opportunities.
NEA Nominating Committee:
Jeanne Lowrey, Chair Marion Hamilton Kris Kobialka Mollie Metevier
Margaret Dalton: Margaret is the Collection Services Archivist at the Harvard Law School Library. Prior to assuming this role, she completed an array of term appointments spanning seven years. These appointments included, but were not limited to, Project Archivist at the Frances Loeb Library of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Project Archivist for Women's Sports Collections at the New-York Historical Society, and Luce Grant Project Archivist at the George Washington University Special Collections Research Center.
Margaret began service to NEA as Treasurer-Elect in 2024, concurrently served as Treasurer-Elect and Treasurer for a spell, and will continue to serve as Treasurer until the 2026 Annual Business Meeting. She has been a member of the Financial Planning Committee since 2024 and contributed to the Program Committee’s work on planning the Spring 2025 Meeting.
Sally Blanchard-O’Brien: Sally works as a Congressional Papers Archivist at the University of Vermont Silver Special Collections Library and has over a decade of experience with government archival records, holding previous roles at the Vermont State Archives and Records Administration. She has been an active member of the New England Archivists since 2016 and have served in several volunteer roles, including as a member of the Membership Committee, member of the 2021 Spring Program Committee, member of the Academic Archivists Roundtable, co-chair of the Community Archives Advocates Roundtable, editor and co-chair of the Newsletter Committee, and Marketing and Outreach Associate for the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies.
Molly Brown: Molly is currently the Reference and Outreach Archivist at Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections and has been in this role since 2018. Her focus as a public services archivist is community-informed collaboration and fostering archival engagement environments that move beyond transactional research. Her first connection with archival work was in high school as a historic home tour guide in Montana conferring with volunteers transcribing previous homeowners’ diaries. Since then she has worked in part-time and professional roles at a variety of institutions in the Pacific Northwest and the Boston area from historical societies, museums, university special collections to corporate and church archives.
Molly joined NEA after attending the 2016 fall conference in Amherst while a student at Simmons. Over the years she has had the honor of holding leadership positions in the Roundtable for Early Professionals and Students, Teaching with Primary Sources Roundtable, and as a representative-at-Large.
Heather Mumford: As the Archivist for the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Heather works collaboratively to build inclusive collections that reflect the school’s legacy and the evolving story of public health. This includes partnering with communities to identify gaps and ensure their records fully capture each story, while remaining mindful of how dominant identities—including my her own—shape the stewardship of history. She is also driven by a professional interest in how grief and transition influence the ways archivists engage with donors and approach the acquisition of records.
Before joining the Center for the History of Medicine in 2011, Heather volunteered with the Peabody Essex Museum, Boston Public Library, Providence Public Library, and the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation. In 2023, she became a certified End of Life Doula.
