Board
These are the elected members of the SCA Board for 2025-2026.
Sue Luftschein, President
president@calarchivists.org
Sue Luftschein is currently Head of Special Collections in the USC Libraries. She received her MLIS from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in Art History from the City University of New York Graduate Center. Prior to arriving at USC, she worked at the Huntington Library, and in the Institutional Records and Archives Department of the J. Paul Getty Trust. She has served on SCA’s Program, Local Arrangements, Publications, Nominating, and Western Archives Institute Management Committees, and was a Member-at-Large, 2020-2022. She is also currently a member of SAA’s Standards Committee; has served on SAA’s Technical Subcommittee for Describing Archives: A Content Standard (TS-DACS), of which she was co-chair 2019-2021; and was a member of the Encoded Archival Standards Section Steering Committee, 2019-2021. She was also a member of the OCLC Working Group on Collection Building and Operational Impact that produced the Total Cost of Stewardship report.
Azalea Camacho, Vice-President/President Elect
vicepresident@calarchivists.org
Azalea Camacho serves as the Head of Special Collections and Archives at Cal State LA. She oversees the department's operations from archival processing, instruction, reference, public services, outreach, collection development, and maintenance. She holds an MLIS with a concentration in archival studies from San Jose State University and a BS in Communications from Cal Poly Pomona. Her dedication lies in strengthening community partnerships and fostering student engagement within the field.
Joanna Black, Secretary
secretary@calarchivists.org
Joanna (JoJo) Black is the Senior Archivist at the William E. Colby Memorial Library at Sierra Club’s national offices in Oakland, CA. In that role, she oversees and safeguards both analog and digital archival collections held at the library, including duties related to collection management, collection development, preservation, and system administration. Prior to working for the Sierra Club, she served as the Director of Archives & Special Collections at the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender (GLBT) Historical Society in San Francisco and the Manuscripts Processing Assistant at the Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley. She holds a BA in creative writing from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree from UCLA in library and information science with a specialization in archival studies. From 2016-2019, she served as Chair of the SCA Publications Committee as well as Chair of SAA's Issues & Advocacy Section from 2019-2020.
Alex Post, Treasurer
treasurer@calarchivists.org
Alex Post is the Special Collections Research Assistance, Outreach, and Instruction Team Lead. In this position she oversees and coordinates reference services, instruction, and outreach initiatives. Prior to this she has held positions at the San Francisco Public Library and Mills College.
Jessica Gambling, Membership Director
membership@calarchivists.org
Jessica Gambling has been the University Archivist and Records Manager at the University of Southern California since January 2024. She previously spent over 13 years as Museum Archivist at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She received her MLIS from the UCLA in 2007 and then held positions as project archivist at the Huntington Library and Los Angeles Public Library. In her free time she enjoys being a Lecturer and Consulting Archivist in the College of Environmental Design Archives and Special Collections at Cal Poly Pomona. She has served as Vice-Chair for Member Initiated Events on SCA’s Membership Committee, as Co-Chair of SCA’s Records Management Task Force, and on the Executive Committee of L.A. as Subject as Outreach and Publicity Lead and later as Chair.
Charla Dela Cuadra, Board Member-at-Large
membersatlarge@calarchivists.org
Charla DelaCuadra is the Manuscripts Processor at University of California, Irvine, where she is the primary individual responsible for physical collections accessioning and processing. Prior to working at UCI, Charla worked as the archives assistant for the Orange Public Library History Center, and as the archivist for the Jay T. Last Collection at the Huntington Library. She holds a master's degree in musicology and archival studies from Claremont Graduate University and a bachelor's in flute performance from Chapman University. Charla has served on both the Education and Communications and Outreach committees, the latter of which she served as co-chair from 2016-2019.
Stella Castillo, Board Member-at-Large
membersatlarge@calarchivists.org
Stella Castillo is the Processing Archivist in the University of Southern California Libraries. Previously, Stella was the LA as Subject Community Archives Specialist, collaborating with L.A. as Subject members to increase online discoverability and public engagement with Los Angeles archival collections. Stella has also worked in USC’s Digital Library, on the CSU Japanese American Digitization Project, and served as an L.A. as Subject Resident Archivist working within wide-ranging archival collections across Los Angeles County. She holds a Masters degree in Library and Information Science and a Bachelor of Arts in the Study of Religion both from UCLA. Stella previously served on SCA’s Local Arrangements Committee in 2019 and on the Program Committee in 2025.
Nicole Shibata, Immediate Past-President
past-president@calarchivists.org
Nicole Shibata is the Metadata Librarian at California State University, Northridge where she develops and implements metadata strategies, policies, and workflows to support access to the library’s digital collections. Prior to this she was the Archivist for JAB Art Enterprises, artist John Baldessari’s studio, and the Associate Curator of Graphics at Tulane University’s Hogan Jazz Archive. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science degree from UCLA and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from California State University, Fullerton. She has been an active member of SCA since 2016 and has previously served as Chair of the Publications Committee and Co-Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee.
