Randa Cardwell

Randa Cardwell has worked as an archivist for the last decade, focusing on photography. She is the executive director of the Photojournalism Archive Project, a nonprofit dedicated to building an online-only archive preserving and sharing in-depth photo stories. She also works as an archivist for the National Parks Service, processing and preserving historic photographic collections from the past century.
Previously, she spent eight years as the archivist and project manager for David and Rebecca Kennerly, helping them successfully sell his archive to the University of Arizona in Tucson’s Center for Creative Photography, where his images from more than 50 years of covering the biggest stories of the day can now be studied.
She earned her Master’s in Library & Information Sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2015.
Prior to becoming an archivist, she worked in television production as a producer, clip clearance supervisor, and researcher for programs on National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, The History Channel, and Yahoo!
While living in Lebanon, she taught high school English literature at the American Community School, Beirut. The dozen years she spent teaching in Lebanon allowed her to reconnect with the country where she was born and lived as a child.
She began her professional life as a newspaper reporter in Southern California after earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism at the California State University, Long Beach.

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