Yvonne Ng, Senior Program Manager, Archives

Yvonne is the Senior Program Manager of the Archives Program at WITNESS, where she trains, creates learning materials, and advocates on the use of archives for human rights change and accountability. 

An audiovisual archivist with 20 years of experience in community-based and nonprofit settings, Yvonne is dedicated to developing approaches to archiving that are accessible, innovative, and relevant to human rights defenders and contemporary movements. She has contributed to and collaborated on numerous grassroots archiving and digital preservation projects and initiatives, and is an active member of the global professional archivist community. In 2024 she received the Alan Stark Award from the Association of Moving Image Archivists for her contributions to the field.

Yvonne has a MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University, and a BA in Cinema Studies from the University of Toronto.