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

• I'm Freelancing with the 2026 Western Archives Institute as the Online Program Coordinator

  Posted on February 25, 2026

  The Western Archives Institute is running this summer! I’m freelancing as the online program coordinator and I’ll be attending class with you and helping you with tech issues. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Freelance
  • Consulting
  • Client Work
  • Archival Training
  • Project
  • iSpring LMS

• Featured in The Paper of Records February 2026 Issue

  Posted on February 20, 2026

  I’m in the news! My long-time colleague Kristen J. Nyitray and I are featured in the community news for The Paper of Records (newsletter for the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York). [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Research
  • Writing
  • Archives
  • ART
  • DAM
  • Cultural Heritage
  • DAM
  • Digital Asset Management
  • Freelance
  • Consulting

• I'm writing a book on Archives and the Politics of Tribal Sovereignty Violence in the US with Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited

  Posted on February 18, 2026

  I’ve got news. My book will explain how Archives repeat settler colonial fictions that maintain sources of sovereign power and impede archival efforts to decolonize core archival structures such as description, collecting, and intellectual property. I center archival recordkeeping as a colonial mechanism through which the US settler state reproduces... [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Bloomsbury Libraries Unlimited Book
  • Archives
  • Sovereignty Violence
  • Freelance
  • Research
  • Writing

• In the DecolFutures News - How Digitized Images are Representations and How Cloud-Based Technologies Work

  Posted on February 17, 2026

  Come get smarter about cloud-based tech (like databases), digitized images, and more in my newsletter: https://decolfutures.beehiiv.com/p/20260217 [Read More]

  Tags:

  • Newsletter
  • DAM
  • digital asset management
  • archives
  • digitization
  • AI
  • GenAI
  • cloud databases

• Why Documenting your Data Ecosystem is Important

  Posted on February 12, 2026

  Let’s talk about documentation. Whether it’s client work, group projects, or looking at your aunt’s personal finances, documentation matters. [Read More]

  Tags:

  • DAM
  • Data Ecosystems
  • Digital Projects
  • Freelance
  • Consulting
  • Client Work

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