Juan Santiago Posada Abal

Digitized, maintained, repaired, and troubleshot 6 legacy media formats with 500+ items; served as primary planner for archive activation and facilitated the festival livestream for the public; planned and recorded 5 staff interviews on Blackmagic Studio Camera; head-planned archive activation and digital festival livestreams for the 2026 Northwest Folklife Festival; curated and edited 12-hour broadcast from 50-year archives; hosted archive activation in the Int. Pavilion Fountain Gallery. Served as sound engineer during 20 interviews between Smithsonian staff and the attending public; curated a public listening library in the Int. Pavilion Fountain Gallery with 40 cassette tapes. Managed event programming for concert series in the Royal Room (4 concerts, 26 total artists) and coordinated with Smithsonian Folklife staff for a collaborative, community-based activation.

Helped with install and strike of the gallery; guided participants and interviewees around the space. Assisted with public archive listening station equipment and monitored recording of 5 interviews.

Ran a sound board connected to a Zoom call with simultaneous English-Spanish interpreters; monitored sound levels, troubleshot, and communicated with interpreters.