Video Trust 2023-2024 Board of Directors
Lorraine Wochna
Board Chair
Subject librarian for Performing Arts, English literature and African American Studies at Ohio University, Athens OH. She is a member of FMRT (ALA’s Film and Media Roundtable) and highly recommends you join. After 20 years in NYC as a theater producer and performer, she completed an MLS from Pratt Institute, and went on to earn MAs in Theater and Film. lorraine runs the Sustainability Film Series, which has been running since 2012. The series focuses on environmental issues, with a focus on social justice. She is highly involved in community engagement and is a member of Center for Campus and Community Engagement.
Jason Tyrrell
Past Board Chair
Jason is a film distribution executive and content strategist based in Los Angeles. Over the past 14 years, Jason has led acquisitions, business development and distribution teams at boutique indie outlets, global content aggregators, and emerging and established digital platforms, always with an eye towards technology’s ability to engage audiences on a deeper level with content, discovery, user experience, and the artists they love. Jason has four produced works as screenwriter, and is an Executive Producer on the forthcoming feature THE HAPPY WORKER, alongside Executive Producer David Lynch. Jason joined Kanopy in 2020 as the Vice President of Content, where he leads content strategy at the premiere platform for thoughtful entertainment for the academic and public library markets, as the company enters its next phase of growth and international expansion.
Charles Cobine
Treasurer
Charles is the Cinema & Media Studies Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) where he manages film, television, media studies, as well as Germanic language and literature collections. Charles serves as a member of the Academic Engagement Council contributing to information literacy, teaching, and technologies that support research services. He has an MSLS from UNC-Chapel Hill, a BA in German and Russian from Lewis & Clark College.
Natasha Nicholson
Natasha is the Director of Content Marketing at Kantola Training Solutions, an innovative eLearning company focused on diversity, equity, & inclusion and harassment prevention. With more than 20 years of experience as a content leader and communication strategist, Natasha served as Executive Editor for Communication World and Catalyst magazines and led all aspects of content development for IABC (International Association of Business Communicators).
Cindy Badilla-Melendez
Cindy Badilla-Melendez is Head of the Music and Media Collections at the University of St. Thomas Library, in Minnesota. Besides her duties with collection development and management, content selection, conservation, licensing for the music and media collections, she also serves as library liaison for the Departments of Modern and Classical Languages, Music and Film Studies. Cindy teaches library instruction classes and provides research support. She works closely with different Departments of the University and with student groups to support and provide information related to film screenings and copyright. With more than 20 years of experience in Library work, she has organized and led several film festivals on campus. Before this position, she was Music Librarian at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.
Elena Rossi-Snook
Elena Rossi-Snook is the Film Specialist at The New York Public Library and collection manager of the Reserve Film and Video. She has an M.A. in Film Archiving from the University of East Anglia and is a recipient of the Kodak Fellowship in Film Preservation. She has served as a curriculum consultant for New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program, on the Board of Directors of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and as chair of the AMIA Film Advocacy Task Force. Elena’s documentary film We Got the Picture was made an official selection of the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. Rossi-Snook also teaches film history at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Johnnie N. Gray, MLIS
Johnnie is currently the Digital Services Librarian for Christopher Newport University, where he has worked for over 20 years. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology, and a MLIS in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh. He specializes in digitization, multimedia production, and copyright.
Arlin Golden
Arlin Golden is an all-around documentary professional living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area as a film director, producer, distributor, programmer, exhibitor, and theorist. He is co-director of Video Project, an impact-oriented distributor of documentary films, as well as director and programmer of Drunken Film Fest Oakland, a free event bringing world-class films into the democratized social space of local bars. He also co-hosts Wiseman Podcast, chronicling the films of documentarian Frederick Wiseman, which has been twice featured in BFI's Sight & Sound magazine. He received his BA in film studies from UC Santa Barbara, and has collaborated with filmmaker Brian Gersten on a number of documentary shorts, most recently Balloon Boy which is currently in festival distribution and was awarded "Best Short Shorector - International" by the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. His first short documentary as director, Back Yard, screened in 2020-21 at such fests as Ann Arbor, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and the inaugural Prismatic Ground.
Steven Guerrero
Steven Guerrero is the Media Arts & Digitization Librarian at the University of North Texas where he serves as a subject librarian and liaises with faculty in the Media Arts department. He also digitizes obsolete magnetic tape based formats in an effort to preserve content endangered of being lost. He has worked in academic libraries for over 10 years and his scholarly contributions span a wide variety of topics including presentations on tabletop game circulation, creating captioning for streaming content, and a publication on creating a sustainable career development program for academic libraries.
