As Head of the UCSF Archives & Special Collections, Polina is responsible for all aspects of planning, collections management, donor relations, and a variety of other programs including digitization and web archiving. She serves as a PI for two grant funded projects that will expand and provide online access to materials preserved in the UCSF AIDS History Project collections. Polina is active in several groups working on preservation, access, and advocacy for records containing PHI. She is a graduate of the Archives Leadership Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2011).