Faculty workshop on bringing archival resources online at Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Musée de l’Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire – Dakar, Senegal

Digital collections professional with over twenty-five years experience leading digitization and preservation programs for archives, libraries, museums, and federal agencies. Experience developing institutional digitization plans; establishing policies, technical standards, and quality assurance frameworks; supervising staff; and managing multi-project portfolios across nearly fifty domestic and international partners. Directed initiatives involving over two million digitized assets prior to federal service. Expertise in digital asset lifecycle management, AV reformatting, imaging standards, metadata frameworks, and ethical stewardship of sensitive collections.

Pennington currently serves as the Partnership Projects Manager for the United States National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC.

Pennington has led multiple teams across several countries, on site and online, and is adept at working with staff, technicians, and project managers in multi-institute, international, and multi-lingual efforts.