SPEAKERS
Dr. Adam Banks
Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
A committed teacher, midnight believer, and a Slow Jam in a Hip Hop
World, Adam Banks is Professor and Faculty Director of the Program in
Writing and Rhetoric and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at
Stanford University. He also serves as an affiliate faculty member of the
programs in African and African American Studies and Science,
Technology and Society. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Cultivating Black Joy as Resistance Online
Friday @ 1:00pm -2:15 pm
Dr. Aleia Brown
Assistant Director | African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities (AADHum) Initiative, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities
Dr. Aleia Brown is the Assistant Director of the African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities Initiative at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds the African American Intellectual History Society’s C.L.R. James Fellowship for her forthcoming work Disrupting the Loop of Recovery: Black Women’s Engagement with Textile Art and Political Thought. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: For the Culture – Black Memory and Storytelling on the Web
Thursday @ 1:00pm -2:15 pm
Dr. Andre Brock
Associate Professor of Media Studies at Georgia Tech University
André L. Brock is an associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Tech University. He is an interdisciplinary scholar with an M.A. in English and Rhetoric from Carnegie Mellon University and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His scholarship includes published articles on racial representations in video games, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twitter. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Not new to dis, we true to dis – The Black Presence in Online Spaces From Then to Now
Thursday @ 11:30am -12:45 pm
Asha Ransby-Sporn
Co-Director of Organizing at Dissenters
Asha Ransby-Sporn is an abolitionist organizer currently the Co-Director of Organizing at Dissenters, an anti-militarist organization of young people. She is a co-founder of BYP100, a Black Queer Feminist movement organization where she has served in both local and national leadership. As a college student, Asha helped launch and led a campaign called Columbia Prison Divest which was the first successful campaign to get a U.S. university to financially divest from the private prison industry. In 2014, she was a part of the We Charge Genocide youth delegation to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland where she testified on police violence in Chicago. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Fight for Power: Activism in Action Online and Documenting Local Community Organizing Efforts
Friday @ 11:30am -12:45 pm
Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson
Chief Curator, African American Museum and Library at Oakland, Oakland Public Library
Bamidele Agbasegbe Demerson serves as the Chief Curator of the African American Museum and Library at Oakland (AAMLO)—a branch of the Oakland Public Library. Prior to affiliation with AAMLO, Demerson served in executive positions at the George Washington Carver Museum, Cultural and Genealogic Center in Austin, Texas; the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina; and the Museum of African American Culture in Roanoke, Virginia. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Archiving the Black Web: A Conversation with ATBW Project Partners
Friday @ 5:00pm -6:15 pm
Bergis Jules
Founding Member of Shift Collective, Project Director of Documenting the Now
Bergis Jules is an archivist who is interested in developing solutions that can grow capacity and achieve long term sustainability in community-based cultural heritage organizations that focus on documenting the lives of marginalized and oppressed people. He is also passionate about incorporating ethics into how we collect and preserve digital content from the web and social media about people that are most vulnerable to harm in those spaces. -More-
Title of Panel Discussion: There Are Black People In Future Web Archives
Thursday @ 4:00pm -5:15 pm
Boni Odoemene
Co-Creator, Black and Irish
Boni Odoemene is a 25 year old International Relations Masters graduate from Dublin, who is one of the co-Founders of ‘Black and Irish’, a social media brand dedicated to highlighting the success and struggles within Ireland’s Black Community. Boni became one of Ireland’s first ever elected black Students’ Union Presidents in 2016, serving 2 terms as President of the Dublin Institute of technology Students’ Union. -More-
Title of Panel Discussion: For the Culture – Black Memory and Storytelling on the Web
Thursday @ 1:00pm -2:15 pm
Black Beauty Archives
Camille Lawrence
Founder and Principal Archivist, Black Beauty Archives
Camille Lawrence is the Founder and Principal Archivist of Black Beauty Archives. Lawrence’s work as an archivist is centered around bringing marginalized histories to the forefront of archives and education. She is most interested in exploring and archiving identity formation throughout the African diaspora and culture through these three foundational principles: Oral, Physical and Ritual. Lawrence’s experience as a professional beauty practitioner informs her research and approach in archiving Black beauty culture. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: For the Culture – Black Memory and Storytelling on the Web
Thursday @ 1:00pm -2:15 pm
Dr. Catherine Knight Steele
Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland – College Park
Title of Panel discussion: Not new to dis, we true to dis – The Black Presence in Online Spaces From Then to Now
Thursday @ 11:30am -12:45 pm
Dr. Charlton Mcilwain
Vice Provost for Faculty Engagement and Development; Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU
Author of the new book, Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, From the Afronet to Black Lives Matter, Charlton McIlwain is Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Engagement at New York University, and Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt. His work focuses on the intersections of computing technology, race, inequality, and racial justice activism. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Not new to dis, we true to dis – The Black Presence in Online Spaces From Then to Now
Thursday @ 11:30am -12:45 pm
Derek Mosley
Archivist/ Division Manager, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, Fulton County Library System
Derek T. Mosley is the Archives Division Manager at Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History in Atlanta, Georgia. He has previously worked at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library and the Ernest J. Gaines Center at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Derek is active in a number of professional organizations including the Society of American Archivists, American Library Association and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Archiving the Black Web: A Conversation with ATBW Project Partners
Friday @ 5:00pm -6:15 pm
Dr. Douglas-Wade Brunton
Assistant Professor at the University of the West Indies
Douglas-Wade Brunton, PhD is a digital ethnographer in the Department of Literary, Cultural and Communication Studies at The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine. He is specifically interested in the relationship between media, culture and identity in a global context, an interest stoked during his doctoral work at the University of Michigan. This interest, his prior professional career as a communications professional working throughout the Caribbean, and his identity as a Trinidadian inform his work on the role the online performance of self plays in the interpretive constructs of identity – particularly for people of colour. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Cultivating Black Joy as Resistance Online
Friday @ 1:00pm -2:15 pm
Holly Smith
College Archivist, Women’s Research & Resource Center, Spelman College
Holly A. Smith is the College Archivist at Spelman College. She received her B.A. in History and Black Studies from The College of William and Mary, an M.A. in History from Yale University, and an M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College. She co-authored the article “This [Black] Woman’s Work: Exploring Archival Projects that Embrace the Identity of the Memory Worker” (KULA Journal), and authored the piece “Radical Love: Documenting Underrepresented Communities Using Principles of Radical Empathy” (Journal for the Society of North Carolina Archivists). She is passionate about community archives and archival advocacy related to collections for historically under documented communities. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Archiving the Black Web: A Conversation with ATBW Project Partners
Friday @ 5:00pm -6:15 pm
Dr. Kim Gallon
Associate Professor of History, Purdue University, Creator of CovidBlack
Kim Gallon is an Associate Professor of History. Her work investigates the cultural dimensions of the Black Press in the early twentieth century. She is the author of the book, Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press (University of Illinois Press, 2020). – More-
Title of Panel discussion: Documenting Black Lives After 2020: Black Newspapers, Black Data, and Black Digital Archives
Thursday @ 2:30pm -3:45 pm
Kimberly Drew
Co-Editor, Black Futures
Kimberly Drew is a writer, curator, and activist. Drew received her B.A. from Smith College in art history and African-American studies. During her time at Smith, she launched the Tumblr blog Black Contemporary Art, which has featured artwork by nearly 5,000 black artists. Drew’s writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, Elle UK, and Glamour. She lives in Brooklyn, New York (just a few blocks away from Jenna Wortham). -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Black Archives of the Future
Friday @ 3:30pm -4:45 pm
Project STAND
Lae’l Hughes-Watkins
Founder, Project STAND, University Archivist, University of Maryland
Title of Panel discussion: There Are Black People In Future Web Archives
Thursday @ 4:00pm -5:15 pm
Makiba Foster
Regional Manager, African-American Research Library & Cultural Center
Makiba J. Foster is the manager of the African American Research Library and Cultural Center (AARLCC) for Broward County Libraries. In 2019, she took the helm with the vision to take AARLCC to the next level with regard to raising its profile and reimagining its services, programs, and community outreach. Within her first year, she quickly implemented new and engaging series like Cultural Conversations as well as secured critical funding from local and national granting agencies to support original content and programs. – More –
Title of Panel Discussion: There Are Black People In Future Web Archives
Thursday @ 4:00pm -5:15 pm
Title of Panel Discussion: Archiving the Black Web: A Conversation with ATBW Project Partners
Friday @ 5:00pm -6:15 pm
Dr. Meredith Clark
Journalist and Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia
Meredith D. Clark, PhD (she/her/hers) is a journalist and Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on the intersections of race, media, and power in digital, social, and news media. She was named to The Root 100 in 2015 for her dissertation research on Black Twitter. Her book on Black Twitter and Black Digital Resistance is under contract with Oxford University Press. – More –
Title of Panel Discussion: Cultivating Black Joy as Resistance Online
Friday @ 1:00pm -2:15 pm
Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds
Founder of Voice Media Ventures, Publisher of Black Voice News, Creator of Mapping Black California
Dr. Paulette Brown-Hinds is the founder of Voice Media Ventures and the second-generation publisher of The Black Voice News. An award-winning columnist and Knight Digital Media Fellow, she has thirty years experience in media, communications, and community engagement. She is the co-founder of Media in Color and the immediate past president of the California News Publishers Association, the first African-American to lead the organization in its over 130 year history. She is currently the Inland Empire Community Foundation board chair and is on the boards of the American Press Institute, California Press Foundation, CalMatters, and The James Irvine Foundation -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Documenting Black Lives After 2020: Black Newspapers, Black Data, and Black Digital Archives
Thursday @ 2:30pm -3:45 pm
Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd
Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, Gonzaga University
Dr. Raven Maragh-Lloyd is a media studies scholar whose research examines the intersections between race, gender, and digital media culture. She is currently working on her book project, Strategic Rearticulations of Black Resistance in the Digital Age, which explores the shifting nature of Black resistance strategies online. More broadly, Maragh-Lloyd is interested in Black publics online who deploy their social and cultural tools in order to challenge media institutions and narratives. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Not new to dis, we true to dis – The Black Presence Online From Then to Now
Thursday @ 11:30am -12:45 pm
Renata Cherlise
Founder Black Archives
TBD -More-
Title of Panel discussion: For the Culture – Black Memory and Storytelling on the Web
Thursday @ 1:00pm -2:15 pm
Dr. Sarah J. Jackson
Title of Panel discussion: Fight for Power: Activism in Action Online and Documenting Local Community Organizing Efforts
Friday @ 11:30am -12:45 pm
Shakira Smalls
Shakira Smalls is a progressive thinker that has devoted most of her professional life to public service. She is guided by the belief that the greatest gift a person can provide is community service and illustrates this commitment through working with individuals who have been marginalized because of social injustices and economic inequalities. Shakira is currently the Executive Director of the Langston Hughes Community Library & Cultural Center in Corona, New York. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Fight for Power: Activism in Action Online and Documenting Local Community Organizing Efforts
Friday @ 11:30am -12:45 pm
Stacie Williams
Stacie Williams (she/they) is division chief of Archives and Special Collections
at the Chicago Public Library, providing oversight for Special Collections at the
Harold Washington Library Center; the Northside Neighborhood Collection at
Sulzer Regional Library, and the Vivian G. Harsh Collection of Afro-American
History and Literature. She is also a member of the Chicago-based Blackivist
collective, which focuses on preservation of local Black cultural heritage.
Through her work, she focuses on ethical labor and cultural production, and
long-term maintenance of digital infrastructure. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Black Archives of the Future
Friday @ 3:30pm -4:45 pm
Syreeta Gates
Founder, The Gates Preserve
Syreeta Gates is a creative, art collector, and archivist committed to preserving hiphop culture. As a collector, Syreeta curates collections that capture the music and movement of hip hop. Her curation extends into building the hip hop movements through creating experiences. Syreeta drives innovation in culture through building strategic connections around hip hop. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: For the Culture – Black Memory and Storytelling on the Web
Thursday @ 1:00pm -2:15 pm
Tai Carpenter
Board President, Don’t Shoot Portland
Tai Carpenter (she/her) is a creative writer and social media strategist
currently serving as board President of Don’t Shoot Portland
(dontshootpdx.org), a nonprofit that uses art and educational programming to
create social change. She is also founder of Compose Yourself Magazine
(composeyourselfmagazine.com), an independent online publication
spotlighting music, culture and social justice.. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Fight for Power: Activism in Action Online and Documenting Local Community Organizing Efforts
Friday @ 11:30pm -12:45pm
Dr Tonia Sutherland
Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Dr. Tonia Sutherland is assistant professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Global in scope, Sutherland’s research focuses on entanglements of technology and culture, with particular emphases on critical and liberatory work within the fields of archival studies, digital studies, and science and technology studies (STS). -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Documenting Black Lives after 2020: Black Newspapers, Black data, and Black Digital Archives
Thursday @ 2:30pm -3:45pm
Teressa Raiford
Founder and Executive Director, Don’t Shoot Portland
Teressa Raiford is the founder of Don’t Shoot Portland, a Black-led and community driven nonprofit in Portland, Oregon, that advocates for accountability to create social change in the spaces of human rights and racial justice. In addition to serving on the board of Don’t Shoot Portland, Teressa maintains a strong presence in the city through her consistent organizing and philanthropy. In 2017, Teressa participated on a panel, The Liberated Archives Unconference, where archivists responded to the movement for Black Lives. It was at this point she issued a call to action to the archivist community to bridge resources and educational support. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Fight for Power: Activism in Action Online and Documenting Local Community Organizing Efforts
Friday @ 11:30pm -12:45pm
Dr. Tara Conley
Assistant Professor, School of Communication and Media, Montclair State University
Tara L. Conley is an interdisciplinary Black feminist scholar, mediamaker, and writer. She is an assistant professor in the School of Communication and Media at Montclair State University and a Stanford University Race and Technology Practitioner Fellow (2021-2022). Her scholarship centers Black life in the study and exploration of place, media histories, and technoculture. In 2013, she founded Hashtag Feminism (www.hashtagfeminism.org) to locate and archive feminist discourse by way of tracking Twitter hashtags on the web. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Fight for Power: Activism in Action Online and Documenting Local Community Organizing Efforts
Friday @ 11:30am -12:45 pm
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Yusef Omowale
Director, Southern California Library
Yusef Omowale is a staff member of the Southern California Library (SCL). Founded almost 60 years ago, SCL is a library and archive located in South Los Angeles that documents and makes accessible histories of struggles that challenge racism and other systems of oppression. This archival labor is located within long-standing traditions of collective memory work to document the impacts of policing, incarceration, displacement, and dispossession. By necessity, this work has included political education workshops, organizing support, and offering of spaces of healing and material aid to ease some of the day-to-day sufferings of racial capitalism. -More-
Title of Panel discussion: Fight for Power: Activism in Action Online and Documenting Local Community Organizing Efforts
Friday @ 11:30am -12:45 pm
Website
Zakiya Collier
Digital Archivist, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Zakiya Collier is the Digital Archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture where she uses web archiving tools to expand the nature of archival collections to reflect 21st-century Black life and experiences. Both in her research and in her work as a Black queer memory worker, Zakiya explores the archival labor, methods, and poetics that are often necessary to render perceptible both the material and immaterial artifacts of quotidian Black life. She holds an MA in Media, Culture, and Communication from New York University, an MLIS from Long Island University, and a BA in Anthropology from the University of South Carolina. –More-
Title of Panel discussion: Archiving the Black Web: A Conversation with ATBW Project Partners
Friday @ 5:00pm -6:15 pm