Grace Lile

Grace is an archivist with over 20 years experience working with film and video collections, and expertise in digital asset management, preservation-oriented production, and documentary film. Prior to joining WITNESS in 2003, Grace spent nine years at CNN, where she established and oversaw the network’s first New York video archive and news library, and two years at the Worldwide Television News Archive.
 
She studied theater and cinema studies at Sarah Lawrence and Hunter Colleges, and received an MS in Information and Library Science from Pratt Institute. She is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and the Society of American Archivists, and is actively engaged in efforts to promote and support human rights archiving and documentation. In 2010 Grace was the recipient of the Archival Achievement Award from The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York.