Allison Schein
WTTW/WFMT/Studs Terkel Radio Archive Archivist
Chicago, IL
Allison Schein is the director of Media Archives Archivist for WTTW/WFMT and the Studs Terkel Radio Archive, collaborating with such partners as the Library of Congress, the Chicago History Museum, Chicago Public Library, and Dominican University’s School of Information Studies. After receiving her archivist certification in 2013, she became the Archivist for the Creative Audio Archive at Experimental Sound Studio, where she had been the Archive Manager since 2011. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Audio, Arts, and Acoustics from Columbia College Chicago and an MLIS from Dominican University in 2012 to become an audio archivist. Prior projects include processing the photography archives of Johnson Publishing Company as part of the Armstrong-Johnston team, reorganizing the library at the Arts Club of Chicago, and providing metadata assistance for Northwestern University Library’s Digital Collections department. She is also the 2014 recipient of the Young Mazzuchelli Model Award.