I'm open to fully remote freelance/consulting, contract, and part-time gigs

My books are open! I help nonprofits, archives, museums, libraries, and creatives manage their IT systems, databases, websites, and media (working files, animations, A/V, infographics, fonts, licenses, comics). I'm looking for freelance/consulting work, but I'm also open to contract and part-time gigs.
Portfolio: https://www.decolfutures.com
Email me: danareijerkerk@gmail.com

• Press Release - Upcoming Archival Book on US Archives and Sovereignty Violence Announced in The Paper of Records (Official Newsletter of the Archivists of Metropolitan New York)

  Posted on May 14, 2026

  I’m in the news! Did you know I’m writing an archival book on US Archives and Sovereignty Violence? Want to learn about what data professionals really mean when we say colonization is ongoing and systemic? Interested in other ways of archival decolonization beyond repatriation or reparative cataloging? [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Decolonization
  • Indigenous Relations in Archives
  • Indigenous Collection Management
  • Archives
  • Freelance Writing
  • Research
  • Writing

• Behind The Scenes As a Data Consultant in NYC Or How I Use Weird Art To Tell Data Stories And Share My Work

  Posted on May 5, 2026

  How do you talk about your work? I like telling data stories - about my career, cool data projects I see, upskilling opportunities - through weird art! It’s also good practice for making visuals/art for the indie video games I create. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Data Consultant in NYC
  • Data Consultant For Hire
  • Behind-the-Scenes

• Spring Fever Issue 3 - Working As A Data Freelancer

  Posted on May 4, 2026

  Another day, another room in our data professional haunted house. Walk the halls with me and experience the horror that is doing data labor. Today’s room is working as a freelancer. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Spring Fever Comic
  • Freelance Data Services NYC
  • DAM
  • Digital Asset Management
  • Caw Doodles

• Research Paper on GenZers, Affective Archives, and Social Media Algorithms A Month Away

  Posted on May 3, 2026

  🌟We’re a month away from my first in person conference talk in 2 years!!!🌟 I’ll be presenting on a paper my long-time collaborator Kristen J. Nyitray and I wrote about Gen Zers and affective archives on social media. Our research argues that Billy Joel’s song “Vienna” operates as a counter-temporal,... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Research
  • Writing
  • GenZers
  • Affective Archives
  • Social Media Algorithms
  • Community Archives
  • Data Consultant For Hire
  • Data Consultant NYC

• Spring Fever Issue 2 - Asking Leadership Data Related Questions

  Posted on April 29, 2026

  Introducing a data professional haunted house. Walk the halls with me and experience the horror that is doing data labor. Today’s room is “when you ask data related questions to leadership.” [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Spring Fever Comic
  • Freelance Data Services NYC
  • DAM
  • Digital Asset Management
  • Caw Doodles

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