Elvia is the current 2010-2012 Diversity Librarian Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh.She is originally from the Southern Californian region, having earned her BA in Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles. As an undergraduate student, she had the opportunity to work at UCLA’s Performing Arts Special Collections and the Los Angeles County of Museum Art’s Balch Research Library, contributing to projects of digitization, indexing, and processing. A recent MLIS Pitt alum, she has joined the Special Collections Department at the University of Pittsburgh and will oversee the processing of various archival collections for the 2011-2012 academic school year.