Milligan, Sarah

Sarah Milligan is the Head of the OOHRP, overseeing the production, access, and preservation of the 1,700+ interviews in the collection. She has worked extensively in oral history outreach, including providing training for new interview production as well as technical assistance to oral history collection holders throughout the country. Before joining the OOHRP, Milligan was the Administrator for the Kentucky Oral History Commission (KOHC), managing the KOHC's archive of over 10,000 oral history recordings, a long-standing statewide oral history granting program and an extensive outreach network. Milligan has expertise in archival preservation and access, and is a founding member of the Digital Public Library of America OKHub working group, has been an anchor trainer for the Library of Congress' Digital Preservation Outreach Education (DPOE) program and was the inaugural President for the Oklahoma Archivists Association. She has worked for over a decade in the public history and library/archives fields, and is a member of the 2011 class of the History Leadership Institute and the 2015 class of Harvard's Library Leadership in a Digital Age. Milligan has served on numerous committees for the Oral History Association (OHA) over the years, including co-chairing the 2018 Task Force to revise the longstanding OHA Principals and Best Practices and serving on the OHA Council. Milligan also currently serves on the Oklahoma Humanities Board of Trustees. She has her M.A. in Folk Studies from Western Kentucky University and B.A. in English and German from Oklahoma City University.