Selena Aleman

About the presenter

Selena Aleman is the Archivist of the Catholic Archives of Texas (CAT). She began working at the CAT in January 2018 as a graduate student intern. Selena works on digitization projects, including digitizing the Knights of Columbus collection and sacramental records. She also provides reference services and works on other projects with the executive director of the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops.

Selena has worked on archives projects at the Austin History Center, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library, Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, and the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. She received a bachelor of science in sociology and minor in women and gender studies from Texas A&M University in 2013 and a master of science in information studies from UT at Austin in 2018.

Prior to her work in archives, Selena served as a literacy tutor for City Year San Antonio and was an eighth grade social studies teacher in Victoria, Texas.