Mimi Kim Klausner

Kim Klausner co-produced and co-directed the award winning documentary film Choosing Children in 1985. Winner of the Best Short Documentary Award, New York Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Choosing Children was chosen for preservation by the Outfest Legacy Project. Klausner was Consulting Producer for Academy Award winning Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment and Cine Golden Eagle winner It’s Elementary: Talking About Gay Issues in School. Klausner is an archivist and historian and has done archival film footage research. She was also one of the co-founders and publisher of OUT/LOOK Lesbian and Gay Quarterly.

Twenty years experience working in community-based and academic archives. Prior to that fifteen years working for nonprofit organizations and in documentary film production.

With over 20 years experience as a community and university based archivist, I help people and organizations preserve their histories. Most people don't realize how valuable the things they've kept over the years are. The community activist who has saved leaflets, meeting minutes and buttons or the group that has brochures, memos and financial statements have the very things people in the future will need to understand our lives today.

As a historian I have researched the many branches of my family from the 18th century in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Russia to the 19th and 20th centuries in the United States. I identified the towns and shtetls from which my ancestors came and took a trip to visit these places in 2016 and 2017. This is about the trip and restoration of the Logishyn Jewish cemetery: https://www.mimiklausner.net/trip-to-ancestral-homelands.