Sarah Stauderman is the Acting Director of Preservation Programs at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The NARA program consists of preservation field service programs, heritage science, conservation laboratories at Archives I and II in Washington DC and preservation labs in St. Louis, and Dynamic Media labs for audiovisual and motion picture records. She was the Director of the Department of Collections Care and Management at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden from 2015-2021 (Smithsonian Institution). From 2000-2015, Sarah was the preservation manager at the Smithsonian Institution Archives. She has worked in related preservation industries such as VidiPax (a magnetic media reformatting company), art galleries, and art museums in development and communications.
She is a contributing editor and author to "Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage" (2019) and she co-edited the publication "Proceedings of the Smithsonian Institution Summit of the Museum Preservation Environment" (2016) available for download at opensi.si.edu. Sarah was the Chair of the AIC Bylaws Committee (2022). She was a member of the board of directors of AIC 2012-2015. She lectured widely on the history of magnetic media formats and preservation challenges and was active on the Electronic Media Group. Her areas of interest include preventive conservation, conservation of contemporary media especially magnetic media, paper and photograph conservation, and museum administration.
She graduated from Buffalo State College in 1997 with an M.A. Fellowships include MCI (formerly SCMRE/CAL) with Dianne Van Der Reyden, and internships include Princeton University Libraries (Ted Stanley), Textile Conservation Workshop (Patsy Orlofsky and Karen Clark), Yale University (Teresa Fairbanks and Gisela Noack). She has a B.A. from Amherst College.