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The American Folklife Center: 2024 Year in Review

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

In this post, Nicole Saylor, Director of the American Folklife Center (AFC), highlights the 2024 accomplishments of the AFC. The post demonstrates how 2024 was a busy and productive year for the American Folklife Center, as it continued to meet its mission to document and share the many expressions of human experience to inspire, revitalize, and perpetuate living cultural traditions.

Posted in: Acquisitions, AFC Awards, AFC Events, AFC History, AFC Publications, AFC Reading Room Visitors, AIDS Memorial Quilt, Archie Green, Archive Challenge, Artists in Resonance, Benjamin Botkin Folklife Lecture Series, Botkin Folklife Lectures Plus, Community Collections Grants, COVID-19 American History Project, Homegrown Concert Series, Internship program, LGBTQ, Louisiana, Occupational Folklife Project, Podcasts

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Labor Department Official Named to American Folklife Center Board

Posted by: Nicole Saylor

The American Folklife Center is pleased to announce the appointment of Jessica Looman, Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division (WHD), to the American Folklife Center Board of Trustees. President Biden appointed Looman for a term expiring June 1, 2030. Looman had previously served as the Principal Deputy Administrator of WHD since Wednesday, January 20, 2021. WHD enforces worker protections and provides outreach and education about federal labor laws including minimum wage, overtime, child labor, and family and medical leave.

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