Kayleigh MacDonald

Kayleigh MacDonald is a Curatorial Assistant with the Harvard Plate Stacks, where she assists in the digitization and preservation of 19th-century glass plate photographs. Her role combines high-level archival handling, metadata organization, and imaging techniques—including multi-spectral imaging—with public-facing duties such as leading exhibition tours and managing researcher requests. She enjoys working with artists who visit the collection and was part of the team that concluded the 20+ year digitization initiative DASCH.

Kayleigh received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University, School of the Arts. 

Outside of the Plate Stacks, Kayleigh teaches photography courses and maintains a personal art practice rooted in intersectional explorations of nature, community, and image-making.