Announcing the VRA Travel Award Winners for 2020 Baltimore

Dear VRA colleagues,

The Travel Awards Committee is pleased to present the following as Travel Award winners for the 2020 Conference in Baltimore:

Katherine Lane, Free Library of Philadelphia – Kathe Hicks Albrecht Award

Alan Munshower, University of Mississippi – New Horizons Award

 Charlotte Eagle, Pratt Institute – New Horizons Student Award/Tansey Award

 Emily Crockett, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill – Garneta Taormina Memorial Student Award

Maureen Burns, IMAGinEd Consulting & Archivision – Tansey Award

Bria Sinnott, Towson University – Tansey Award

Chelsea Stone, Prologis – Tansey Award

Meredith Hale, University of Tennessee, Knoxville – Tansey Award

Tess Colwell, Yale University – Tansey Top-Up Award

Julie Irick, Seattle Municipal Archives – Tansey Top-Up Award

Our thanks to the members of the Travel Awards Committee (Catherine Adams, Morgan Bell, Lael Ensor-Bennett, Marcia Focht, Jean Hudson, Meghan Rubenstein, and Molly Schoen), who gave up significant portions of their Thanksgiving week schedules to evaluate and rank this year's applicants.

Please join us at the awards ceremony during the VRA Convocation on Wednesday, March 25, at 4:00 PM in the Royal Sonesta Harbor Court Hotel to recognize and welcome these award recipients.

Allan KohlHeather SeneffCo-Chairs, Travel Awards Committee