Katja Hering

Katja Hering has been a member of Positive Force DC since the 1990s. She has coordinated oral history programs and curated oral history collections for many years, including at the National Equal Justice Library (Georgetown Law Library) and at Special Collections & Archives at Fenwick Library. She graduated from George Mason University’s PhD program in history in 2009 and also holds a MLIS from the School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh (2010). When she’s not teaching as an adjunct professor at George Mason University, she works as a digital project librarian at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. Before moving to the United States, she lived and studied in the port city of Hamburg, Germany. There, she worked with a community radio collective, which was just transitioning from analog to digital audio production.