Now that I organize workshops for RC/RC, I knew I wanted to pull on the insights Bailey brought into my life. The experience of drawing my journey and seeing that of others was so impactful that for months I found myself returning to the exercise. There are so many! It may seem small, but I recently got to utilize a powerful reflective exercise I learned from Bailey Sullivan, who prompted us to map out how we arrived at our work with the BWC. When you have a shared present, you can work towards shared futures. To do this requires the steps we are going through in both projects: the revelatory, necessary, and vulnerable process of building trust. While I am quite new to archives, I recognize how vital it is for archives to build enduring and non-transactional relationships with the people they represent. I also stay involved with our efforts to identify harmful terms, facilitate meetings for the full group, and help plan forms of programming around the collections.įrom your studies in SI and your experience on these projects, what does it mean for archives to be community-centered? This new position gives me the opportunity to design a weekly workshop for our illustrious and inspiring new cohort of research assistants focused on reparative description. With the start of the project’s second year, I stepped into a project coordinator role. Continuing with RC/RC in a Research Associate position, I’ve collaborated with Robert Diaz on our team’s effort to compile and define harmful terms pertaining to histories of the Philippines, as well as a potential method for automating their discovery in archival descriptions. Throughout this time, I received incredible mentorship and guidance from team member and BHL interim director Nancy Bartlett. I also held an internship at the BHL, in which I helped plan their participation in our two-week Artist Residency and conducted a base-level analysis of their Philippine collection descriptions. What is your role on the ReConnect/ReCollect project?Īt first, I worked for the Bentley Historical Library (BHL), supported by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, surveying their Philippine collections. My BWC teammates and our PIs offered such generosity of spirit, time, energy, and knowledge, they have forever changed how I think about collaborative work. We were part of a truly amazing Visual Identity and Design working group that oversaw this work. This platform, which is now being rolled out, includes spaces to communally archive project documents, provide updates, plan meetings, and continue developing our collective purposes (as team member Yodit Mesfin Johnson once offered, our “exists to” statements). I partnered again with Mia – who is truly such a luminary – on thinking through how to design a virtual space that reflects the values and shared visions of the BWC team. I largely focused on development of our internal website. What aspects of the Black Washtenaw County project have you worked on? I reached out to Ricky, and I have so much gratitude that he met with me and ultimately encouraged me to apply for the ReConnect/ReCollect (RC/RC) project. As someone who had quite literally followed Ricky’s work to U-M, I was ecstatic! But the position’s focus – delving into materials related to the Philippines – was completely outside of my knowledge base. ![]() He responded generously and introduced Mia and I to the Black Washtenaw County (BWC) project, helping us conceptualize how our work could pair with that of the BWC team.Īlongside this, I received an email that there was a research position open with Professor Ricky Punzalan. We reached out to Professor Rob Goodspeed, whose work with Justice Indeed we had come across. Last fall, I was lucky to partner with my friend Mia Glionna on a course project about histories of the fight for fair housing in Washtenaw County. ![]() How did you become involved with two Humanities Collaboratory projects? Funding Sources for Humanities Scholars.Documenting Criminalization and Confinement.Reparative Connections to Philippine Collections.
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