AMIA 2024

Elizabeth Hansen is a creative problem-solver with more than two decades of expertise in archives, museums, history, and media. She joined the Texas Archive of the Moving Image as Managing Director in 2020 and served as the organization's Outreach and Education Manager from 2008 to 2013. With a career spanning roles in community engagement, media production, and archival research, Hansen has worked for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the LBJ Presidential Library, the Bullock Texas State History Museum, Kansas City PBS, the National Educational Telecommunications Association, the Stax Museum of Soul Music, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Hansen's archival research has enhanced documentaries such as "Winnebago Man," "Karen Dalton: In My Own Time," and "See Know Evil." She holds a master's degree in media studies from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor's degree in mass communication from Middle Tennessee State University.