PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2024-2025 Heritage Assistant, Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre (JCCC), North York, ON.

• Scanning, cataloguing, and data entry of photographs, documents and books from collections (approximately 100 to 200 cm of records) 

  • Created or audited, and applied RAD knowledge in the Susan Nikaido Collection, Hori Collection, Toyonaga Collection, Tom Matsui Collection, Yuki Kondo Collection, Koji Goto Collection, and George Tsushima Collection

• Ensuring the completion and consistency of past volunteer and student archival work

• Transcription and description of 8 hours of interviews from the Sedai Oral History collection to increase accessibility for researchers

• Assessing the Sedai Oral History collection, identifying gaps, and curating material from the collection 

• Research and development of policies surrounding offensive and out-dated language in oral history and archival collections

• Developing a standard auditing process for media files in the collection and providing consistent organization in the department’s storage practices

2022-2024    Outreach and Assessment, Toronto Academic Libraries Internship (TALint), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Library, University of Toronto 

• Responding to complex inquiries and helping a diversity of researchers from various academic backgrounds and community members to navigate the library’s archival Ontario Historical Education Collections (OHEC), and cataloguing and database system

• Co-creating a research project that investigates outreach for Black, Indigenous, and racialized students in academic libraries

• Includes an ethics proposal, recruitment process, and conducted interviews that will result in publication and will be referenced for future academic library outreach initiatives

• Curating book displays dedicated to social justice and promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in children’s literature and curriculum related to Black and Indigenous knowledge, histories, and representation for teachers to bring into Ontario classrooms

2023 - 2024     Program Assistant Lead, Faculty of Information’s Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Unit (EDIU), University of Toronto

• Adjudicated EDI Unit Student Initiative Funds in support of recognized student groups with facilitating equity-based initiatives and projects to help advance equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility within the Faculty of Information

• Inspiring collaboration between student groups and influenced the planning of events dedicated towards Black Digital Humanities facilitated by the Diversity Working Group and Braille Preservation facilitated by the Accessibility Interests Working Group

• Co-facilitated workshops dedicated to centring marginalized voices within the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museum sector of work to encourage safe community building

• Programming initiatives required collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, designing and disseminating promotional materials to BIPoC, 2SLGBTQIA+, and disabled communities, and planning of a cumulative exhibition

2021-2022    Arts Programming Assistant, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON.

2020    Educational Content Creator & Digital Media Specialist Assistant, Mindful Makers, Kitchener, ON.

FEATURES & PUBLICATIONS

Academic

2024    Huỳnh, L. (2024). (Food) Hoarding: The Displaced Persons’ Act of Collecting Archival Memory and Trauma. The IJournal: Student Journal of the Faculty of Information, 9(2), 97–116. https://doi.org/10.33137/ijournal.v9i2.43222

2024    Huỳnh, L. [Forthcoming]. Re-Imagining Academic Library Outreach for Racialized Students, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) Library, University of Toronto.

2019    Huỳnh, L. (April 2019). Sharing Confusion Cuisine: Consuming Asian-North American Identities in Contemporary Art. Visual Culture Thesis, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Waterloo.

Poetry

2020 Untitled, Community Dream Journal, curated by Manisha Anjali, Web.

2020 the world sees through red, rose-tinted glasses, Covid Chronicles, Web.

2020 in the process of becoming well-red, We Look the Same Film, Web.

2020 the sunflowers no longer bask in sunlight, Stay Home Diary, Bittermelon Poetry, Web.

PRESS

2024 Archives Association of Ontario. (2024). Member Spotlight: Lenora Huỳnh, Off The Record, 40(2), pp. 10-11. [Featured]. https://www.aao-archivists.ca/otr-current-issues

2024 Brocklehurst, A. (2024). In rethinking the role of archives, food helps, Faculty of Information News. [Featured]. https://ischool.utoronto.ca/news/in-rethinking-the-role-of-archives-food-helps/

CONFERENCES & PRESENTATIONS

2024     Presenter, Huỳnh, L. & Wong, D. (May, 2024). Re-Imagining Academic Library Outreach for Racialized Students research paper accepted for the Academic Libraries Toronto (ALT) Conference, St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto. https://trylibraryconference.wordpress.com/presentation

2024     Presenter, Huỳnh, L. (March, 2024). EDI Fellowship Projects: Building an Inclusive Community, iConference 2024, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. https://www.mussa.ca/iconference

2023     Guest Speaker, Huỳnh, L. (March, 2023). Student Leaders on Building Equitable, Diverse and Inclusive Spaces in the GLAM Sector Panel [Representing the Association of Canadian Archivists Student Chapter], Faculty of Information EDIU, University of Toronto. https://ischool.utoronto.ca/news/student-leaders-on-building-equitable-diverse-and-inclusive-spaces

2023     Guest Speaker, Huỳnh, L. (February, 2023). Conversations with the Cơm-munity Speaker Series with Empowered Phụ Nữ Collective, Toronto, ON. Web. https://www.empoweredphunu.com/about-the-project

2020   Presenter, Huỳnh, L. (June, 2020). Consuming Vietnamese-North American Experiences Workshop  [Conference session cancelled], VITA Summit-3, UVSA Eastern Canada, Toronto, ON. https://uvsaec.org/vitasummit/workshops/

2019    Presenter, Huỳnh, L. (May, 2019). Sharing Confusion Cuisine, Visual Culture Thesis and Seminar, University of Waterloo.

CURATORIAL EXPERIENCES

2023-2024    Curator of the Re-imagining A Community: Our Third Place Zine Workshop and Exhibition, Faculty of Information’s EDIU, Learning Hub Gallery Wall, University of Toronto.

2019       Curator of the PERIOD. Exhibition, East Campus Hall, University of Waterloo.

2019       Editorial Committee Member, 4th Year Undergraduate Caesura Exhibition, University of Waterloo.

GROUP EXHIBITION HISTORY

2022     IN•PRINT: Gender Equality Exhibition, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON.

2020     to say to you exhibition at Art$Pay, Waterloo ON.

2019      House of Oriental: Northern Style, OCAD University Learning Zone, Toronto, ON.

2019      Are You What You Eat?, East Campus Hall, University of Waterloo.

2019     Caesura: 45th Annual Senior Undergraduate Exhibition, UWAG, Waterloo, ON.

2019     Live Sketch by Jana Elkhatib, Guest Performing Artist, Flex Studio, Waterloo, ON.

2018      Dimensions of Work: Part 2, The Artery, Waterloo, ON.

2017     Text in Art and Motion in Sculpture, The Artery, Waterloo, ON.

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCES

2024 - Present Transcription and Quality Assurance Volunteer, What’s on the Menu? Historical menu collection, New York Public Library, Web.

2023     Metadata Quality Assurance Assistant, Harley J. Spiller Menus Collection, Practicum, University of Toronto Scarborough Digital Scholarship Unit.

2019      Guest Facilitator,  Food & Diaspora: The Vietnamese-Canadian Edition Workshop, PotLuck, Waterloo, ON.

2018     Technical Assistance Volunteer,  UAAC-AAUC/Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Waterloo, ON.

2018-2019      Communications Coordinator, Society of Fine Artists, University of Waterloo.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2023 - Present   Member, Association of Canadian Archivists, Toronto, ON.

• 2022-2024     Chair and Communication Coordinator, Association of Canadian Archivists Student Chapter, University of Toronto, ON.

2024 - Present  Member, Visible Minority Librarians of Canada, Toronto, ON

2024 - Present  Member, Archives Association of Ontario, Toronto, ON.

2022-2024     Co-Chair, Diversity Working Group, University of Toronto, ON.

2022-2023    Member, Button Factory Arts, Waterloo, ON.

AWARDS & GRANTS

2023-2024 Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Unit Fellowship Grant, Issued by Faculty of Information, University of Toronto

2022 The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing Certificate, Credential ID: 6MN 92S 2UU, Issued by Google LLC.

2019 Nominated for a National juried exhibition, rice plants don’t belong in a land of prairies, BMO 1st Art!, Canada

2019 Staff Picks in Social Commentary Poets category, before the rice plant becomes, Vocal; Jerrick Media Ventures LLC.

NOTABLE PROJECTS

2025 [Forthcoming] Mì Goí Mag, Online Southeast Asain Diaspora Zine Community with Michelle Nguyễn

2019 Southeast Asian Art History Curation, @se.asianart

LANGUAGES

Native/Bilingual Proficiency: Vietnamese and English

Basic - Limited Working Proficiency: French