Shaneé Yvette Murrain-Willis

Shaneé Yvette Murrain-Willis is Director of Community Engagement of the Digital Public Library of America, supporting a national network of more than 4,000 contributing cultural heritage organizations to advance the preservation, dissemination, and use of our shared digital heritage. She also stewarded partnerships and curation for the Black Women’s Suffrage Digital Collection.

Prior to joining DPLA, Shaneé led the collection of campus records and a community archives project with local churches at the University of West Georgia as University Archivist and assistant professor where she was named Faculty Member of the Year in 2018.

Previously she was Director of Library Services and Archivist at Payne Theological Seminary, where she curated the Payne Theological Seminary and African Methodist Episcopal Church Digital Collection and was Project Coordinator of the Religion in North Carolina Digital Collection at Duke Divinity School. She was the 2019 President-Elect of the Society of Georgia Archivists and serves on the Board of Directors of Atla, formerly known as the American Theological Library Association.

Shaneé, born in New York City, and bred in Central Florida, holds a B.A. in Religion and Philosophy from Bethune-Cookman University, a Master of Divinity from Drew Theological School, and a Master of Library Science from North Carolina Central University.