About

After fifteen years at the Detroit Institute of Arts, serving primarily as the Collections Database Manager, Christina Gibbs began a new consulting career in early 2021 with an in-depth digital asset management and collections information reconciliation project for the Smithsonian Institution. She specializes in data and digital asset management (DAM), systems integration and accessibility for people with disabilities in the technology realm. She partners on projects with consulting firms, museums, and technology providers.

Christina is known for her versatility in being able to move fluidly - and fluently - from a day spent coding or designing system integrations to a day spent in concept, vision and strategy. This end-to-end thinking ability leads to transformative uses of data and technology, enabling organizations to broaden measurable impact.

She designed and teaches the course, Technical Considerations in Content Ecosystems, for the DAM Professional Certificate Program at Rutgers University School of Communications and Information Sciences and serves as the Teaching Assistant for DAM for GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums). She is a trained DAM Capability Model Workshop Facilitator on the and has done this specialized work for the Royal Ontario Museum, Museums and the Web, The Ringling Museum and companies in the private sector.