Genna Duplisea is an archivist, writer, and historian attuned to the challenges facing small cultural heritage organizations and the value of these organizations to their communities.

After working in her college’s archives as an undergrad, she worked in higher education and then earned her Master of Science in Library and Information Science with a concentration in archival management and her Master of Arts in history at Simmons College (now Simmons University) in Boston. For the better part of a decade, she was “lone arranger” managing a university archive as a solo archivist, specializing in project management, policy and workflow development, archival processing, digitization, and training students as the next generation of cultural heritage workers.

More recently, Genna has transitioned to museum archives, managing historical collections and organizational records for a group of historic house museums. In this role she supports the museums' research needs during interpretation and engagement, wrangles historical documentation from hiding places across eleven properties, and connects primary source documentation to objects and architecture. As part of a collections team caring for a variety of holdings, she has gained a deeper understanding of how archives fit into the informational landscape of material culture.

She currently serves on the board of New England Archivists and on the Rhode Island Historical Records Advisory Board (RIHRAB). Her professional and research interests center on archives labor, women’s and environmental history. As a founding member of Archivists Responding to Climate Change (Project ARCC), she is also interested in the intersection of archives, human rights, and climate change.