Administration, and served as White House adviser to the Clinton — Gore administration on issues related to the National Archives.
Her fundraising efforts between 1999 and 2002 secured $500,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities to host an annual training series for 100 archivists at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and institutions like the Amistad Research Center and Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History. “[It] opens doors to knowledge and training so that they can better care for those collections,” says Banks