Sharon Mizota is a metadata consultant with ten years’ experience managing metadata for arts organizations, including Walt Disney Animation Studios, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Judy Chicago Research Portal, and Curationist.org. She helps archives, museums, libraries, and web projects transform and share their metadata to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the historical record. She is also an art critic, a recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers’ Grant, and a coauthor of the award-winning book, Fresh Talk/Daring Gazes: Conversations on Asian American Art. She lives in Los Angeles.