Sheila is the Associate Director of Public Projects division of RRCHNM. She currently is the end user experience and testing coordinator for Omeka, co-lead of a mobile website telling the history of the National Mall, and has managed many digital projects, including the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank and Gulag: Many Days, Many Lives projects. Prior to coming to RRCHNM in 2005, she worked as the Director of Education and Public Programs at the U.S. Navy Museum in Washington, DC for seven years. She earned her Ph.D. in U.S. history at George Mason University in 2010. She writes and presents about online collecting, digital tools, postal history, and how museums use the web.