​Snowden Becker

Snowden Becker manages the graduate program in media archiving and preservation at UCLA. Her research and teaching focus on the preservation of audiovisual materials as part of our larger cultural heritage. Recent projects include “On the Record, All the Time,” an IMLS-funded National Forum on data management needs for bodycam footage and other forms of recorded evidence, and her forthcoming dissertation, “Keeping the Pieces: Archival Practice and Evidence Management in Law Enforcement.” She earned basic certification from the Texas Association of Property and Evidence Inventory Technicians in 2007. Becker is also a former Secretary of the Board of the Association of Moving Image Archivists and co-founder of the international Home Movie Day event and the nonprofit Center for Home Movies.