Archivist Elizabeth Joffrion returns to 'dream job' at WWU

Longtime archivist Elizabeth Joffrion recently returned to Bellingham to accept a new position as Western Washington University's director of Heritage Resources.

A graduate of Louisiana State University, Joffrion, 51, holds master's degrees from the University of New Orleans and the University of Maryland. Over the past 23 years she has worked at The Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery, served as director of the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies and been a senior program officer for the National Endowment of the Humanities.