Archer Brown, Secretary

Archer Brown, elected to the Library’s Board of Trustees in December, 2009, has served for several years as its Corresponding Secretary – distributing meeting notices and agendas as well as preparing minutes. As a volunteer, she also chaired a committee to revise the Library’s bylaws in 2008. A relative newcomer to Shelter Island, Archer retired to the Island in 1998 after more than 35 years in the field of international education, working for non-profit agencies in Manhattan and then in Washington, D.C. where she was the Deputy Executive Director of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, a 10,000-member worldwide group of college and university administrators. Since she was a teen-age exchange student, Archer has traveled extensively in the U.S. and abroad. She has been a speaker on related topics at more than 150 national and international conferences. She has continued in her retirement to serve on education boards and as a consultant and has been the Community Editor at the Shelter Island Reporter, where she has worked part time since 1999. A graduate with honors from Mount Holyoke College , Archer was the college’s first Russian major. In her spare time, she is an avid reader. Second only to signing up for a mailbox when she moved to the Island was applying for her library card.