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ACA Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is the legal authority for the Association of Canadian Archivists. The members of the Board act in a position of trust for the community and is responsible for the effective governance of the organization. The ACA Board includes a minimum of 6 members, including:

  • President  (acapresident at archivists.ca)
  • Vice-President (vicepresident at archivists.ca)
  • Treasurer (treasurer at archivists.ca)
  • Secretary (secretary at archivists.ca)
  • Director-at-Large (1) (dal1 at archivists.ca)
  • Director-at-Large (2) (dal2 at archivists.ca)
  • Director-at-Large (3) (dal3 at archivists.ca)

Each elected Board members serves a two-year term. In 2020 the elections were staggered. The President, Treasurer, and Director-at-Large (1 & 3) are elected in even years (2026, 2028, 2030); and the Vice-President, Secretary, and Director-at-Large (2) are elected in odd years (2025, 2027, 2029).

For a full list of Board positions and descriptions, see here.

2026 - 2027 Board of Directors


 President: Alyssa Hyduk

Alyssa Hyduk has been involved in the archival community in Canada since 2015 and is the University Archivist at the University of Regina where she oversees private records, collection development, reference and research. She received her Masters of Library and Information Studies from the University of Alberta in 2018 and has been active within the archival community since. Her experience with the ACA includes chairing the FRC committee and currently co-chairing the Program Team for the 2026 ACA conference, as well as being part of the Program Team for the 2024 virtual conference. Her interests include cultural memory acquisition, digitization and preservation, AI in archives, and archival appraisal.


Vice President: Angela Fornelli








Angela Fornelli has been an archivist since 2007, beginning first as the Archives Assistant and working her way to City Archivist with the City of Wetaskiwin in Alberta. Throughout her career she has worked in Alberta, Yukon Territory, Saskatchewan, and Ontario as a working archivist in both private and government archives. She was briefly on the board of the Archives Society of Alberta as Treasurer and has been an active member on various committees with the ACA.

Currently she is the Co-Chair of the Municipal Archives Special Interest Section and is a member of the Conference Planning Committee. Through her work and from being a Co-Chair and working for various levels of government she has garnered an understanding of and experience in managing and leading teams, parliamentary proceedings, as well as Board governance, finance, and leading programs. She obtained her MSc in Archives and Records Management (International) through the University of Dundee in 2015.

She is a firm believer in supporting members through learning opportunities, career development, and in continuing to build an active and engaged membership. Angela is currently the Manager of Corporate Records and Archival Services as well as the Municipal Archivist for the City of Kawartha Lakes in Ontario.  

Secretary: Alexandra Mills







Alexandra Mills (she/her) is the Special Collections Archivist at Concordia University Library, located on the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka Nation in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. She holds a Master of Library and Information Studies, with a specialization in archives, from the School of Information Studies at McGill University (2013) and a Master of Arts in art history from Concordia University (2010). Alexandra served on the Association of Canadian Archivists (ACA) Professional Development from 2017 to 2021 and has been a member of the Governance Committee since 2022. Currently, Alexandra is the Board liaison for the Membership committee. She began her term on the ACA Board of Directors as Secretary in July 2023.


Treasurer: Adam Williamson








Adam Williamson is currently a General Council Processing Archivist at the United Church of Canada Archives and previously worked at the Archives as the Digitization Assistant. He has also worked as a Research Assistant under Fiorella Foscarini.

Adam recently graduated from the University of Toronto’s iSchool with a Master of Information (2024) and has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in History from Brock University (2021). He previously held the Director-at-Large portfolio supporting the ACA’s student chapters and provides general support for the maintenance of the ACA’s website. 


Director-at-Large: Matthew Keels


Matthew Keels earned a Bachelors degree in History from Memorial University of Newfoundland (2019) and a Masters of Information (Archives and Records Management) from the University of Toronto (2021). He  was employed with Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Archives and Special Collections as Accessioning Archivist from 2022 to 2026. He is currently employed with The Rooms Provincial Archives Division as Archivist - Reference and Collections. In addition to this, he volunteers with the Church Lads’ Brigade Museum and Archive.


Director-at-Large: Amanda Oliver

Amanda Oliver (she/her) is the Head, Archives and Special Collections at Wilfrid Laurier University, located on the Haldimand tract, the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishnaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples. She holds a Master of Library and Information Studies, with a concentration in archives, from McGill University and a Master of Arts in Preventive Conservation from Northumbria University. Amanda served on the ACA’s Professional Development Committee from 2017-2021 and the Program Team from 2018-2021.


Director-at-Large: Jen Nangreave


Jen Nangreave (she/her) is the Archives & Records Analyst at Carleton University’s Corporate Records and Archives department. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science from Western University (2019) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours Specialization) in English Language & Literature and Creative Writing (2015), also from Western. She also holds a Records & Information Management Certificate from ARMA International.

Since 2020 she has volunteered with Rise Up! Feminist Digital Archive, most recently on the Archival Management Working Group. She was a member of the Canadian Council of Archives’ ARCHIVESCANADA.ca Working Group (2024-2026). She was a member of the ACA Financial Review Committee from 2022-2026, and a member of the Host Committee for the 2025 ACA conference in Ottawa.


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