Author: Jamie Ann Lee
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Internship at the Skid Row History Museum & Archive
by James Hellebuyck, March 2026 / FOCAS Intern, 25-26 / UCLA I have the privilege of working for the Skid Row History Museum & Archive as the Mellon Intern, and my favorite part of the work is being able to witness the relationship the archive has cultivated with the community of Skid Row. There is…
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Internship at the La Historia
by Emily Torres, February 2026 / FOCAS Intern, 25-26 / UCLA My journey with La Historia began before I earned the Mellon position–back in 2025 during the Winter quarter of my first year–when I partnered with their previous Mellon intern to make a short film about the archive for our Media Archiving class. Immediately I…
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Connections in the Collections: Archiving at the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
by Zoe Lee-DiVito, October 2025 / FOCAS Intern, 25-26 / UCLA Working as an archival intern at the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California has taught me so much about archival processing and the unique role of a community archive. Situated in downtown Los Angeles Chinatown, CHSSC is part of the local Chinese American community.…
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Building a typology of Canadian Community Archives through a provincial mapping project
By Rohini Singh, Master of Archival Studies / University of British Columbia Introduction The FOCAS project at the University of British Columbia took off in summer 2024 under Dr. Jennifer Douglas with two community archives student internships, a curriculum development project and an exercise of mapping British Columbia-based community archives. I joined the project as…
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SAA Reflection / The Affect of Carework in Archival Practice
By Nicole Hayes, FOCAS Intern, Spring & Fall 2025 / University of Arizona This year’s SAA Conference took place in Anaheim, and although it’s only a day’s drive from Tucson, the relief from the brain-melting summer heat was immediately transformative. It has only been two months since the conference, but admittedly in the present political…
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First Time / Firsthand Experience at the SAA Conference 2025!
By Eric Reed, FOCAS Intern, Fall 2025 / University of Arizona Hello everyone, Last August I had the opportunity to attend the Society of American Archivists (SAA) Conference with my fellow FOCAS interns. This was the first SAA conference I had ever attended, and I found the experience very rewarding. From socializing with archivists and…
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Attending SAA
By Olivia C. Otero, FOCAS Intern, Spring/Fall 2025 / University of Arizona At the beginning of the Fall semester, I attended the 2025 Society of American Archivists Conference in Anaheim, California, where I was also a graduate poster co-presenter with my fellow FOCAS colleagues: Sam Stroud (UCLA), Cheryl Muhammad (Black Metropolis Research Consortium), Ahmal Ahmed…
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From SAA to AzLA
By Riqué Duhamel Escobedo, FOCAS Intern, Fall 2025 / University of Arizona The Society of American Archivists (SAA) conference this last August was my first time getting to attend a professional conference. Following the excitement of getting to travel to Anaheim, California for the first week of the fall semester, the three days of panels…
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History & Technical Skills: Working with Los Descendientes and the Mexican American Heritage and History Museum
By Jose A. Robles II, FOCAS Intern Spring 2025, University of Arizona During the Spring 2025 semester, I was lucky enough to be a part of Los Descendientes de Tucson and The Mexican American Heritage and History Museum, alongside Melissa Berry. Alisha Vasquez and Rikki Riojas were fantastic mentors and supervisors throughout my time with…
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Preserving the History of the Dunbar School
By Hana Lipke, FOCAS Intern, Spring 2025 / University of Arizona The Dunbar Pavilion, as it stands today, is an African American focused cultural and community center located at the corner of West 2nd Street and North Main Avenue. The oldest building on site is the original Paul Laurence Dunbar School, which grew from “The…