For over three decades, Mona Jimenez has had a major impact in the areas of video preservation and the media arts, bringing audiovisual archival expertise and training to cultural organizations worldwide. As Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program (MIAP), she founded the Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) She initiated and developed the model for the Community Archiving Workshop, (CAW) which to date has trained hundreds of archivists, librarians, artists, and mediamakers and served over 20 cultural and community-based organizations around the world since 2010.