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Executive Director, Black Metropolis Research Consortium
Andrea Jackson is Executive Director of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium, a membership organization of Chicagoland repositories collecting, documenting & making accessible African American & Diasporic history & archives. She is an alumna of Spelman College & New York Univ...
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University Archivist | Director of Archives, Records Mgmt., & Special Collection, Chicago State University
Raquel Flores-Clemons received her MSLIS from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An advocate for equity and access, she maintains a deep commitment to capturing historical narratives of communities of color and engages Hip Hop as a method of archival praxis + information...
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University Archivist, Morgan State University
Dr. Ida Jones is a historian and University Archivist at Morgan State University. She previously served as an assistant curator of manuscripts at Howard University's Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, and is the author of several books on African Americans, primarily in Washington...
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Latin American and Caribbean Special Collections Librarian, University of Florida
Margarita processes Latin American manuscripts and serves as liaison to faculty and students. She uses her background on diversity to identify and highlight the hidden voices in archival collections and to serve and empower Latino students.
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Manager of Special Collections, DC Public Library
Kerrie Cotten Williams is the Manager of Special Collections at DC Public Library. As previous Archives Manager for the Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American History, she initiated donor engagement and creation of the African American Lesbian and Gay Print Culture Co...
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