I have 8 years of experience, and specialize in the field of doing local history about the San Francisco Bay Area in California with specific knowledge in the areas of 19th century women, San Francisco Gold Rush and San Francisco women doctors, Charlotte Blake Brown and Adelaide Brown. I have published on such topics as San Francisco Gold Rush history and married women’s property rights, women in medicine and the law and San Francisco State University. I did not expect to write history, but as a curator I have written about collections. In recent years fields like media ecology have made the collections I work with increasingly relevant.