WITNESS’ Yvonne Ng recognized by the Association of Moving Image Archivists

18th December, 2024

Today, the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) recognized WITNESS’ Yvonne Ng with the Alan Stark Award for her contributions to archival work with WITNESS and the AMIA. 

The Alan Stark Award recognizes “individuals who have made a significant contribution through their efforts on a special project that contributes to, and supports, the work of moving image archives and/or AMIA.” 

The Association specifically recognizes Yvonne’s work as Senior Program Manager at WITNESS, and her work on WITNESS’ Activists’ Guide to Archiving Video as “an invaluable tool for media collectives, grassroots human rights organizations, and human rights activists to ensure their work can be used for advocacy, as evidence, for education, and for historical memory.

Archives Program Manager, Yvonne Ng accepts the Alan Stark Award for significant contribution to moving image archival work.

“I think, with the unique technical expertise and historical knowledge found in our community we can act, each of us in our own way, on proliferating skills and knowledge on audiovisual preservation among communities who are concerned about saving their videos and being able to use them, and in expanding media literacy around new video technologies that have the potential to help or hurt us.” -Yvonne Ng, accepting the Alan Stark Award

Yvonne has been involved with the AMIA and archiving work for over 20 years. She leads the video archiving program at WITNESS where she helped co-create the Rohingya Genocide Archive, collaborated with Berkely Copwatch on a video database for police misconduct, trained activists and video-workers in archiving practices, and created easily accessible archiving resources and tipsheets in multiple languages for communities and human rights defenders around the world. 

To learn more about Yvonne’s work, you can visit WITNESS’ archiving resources and tipsheets here.

To learn more about the Association of Moving Image Archivists, please visit their website here.