Berlin Loa is an Associate Professor at the University of Arizona College of Information Science. She also manages the Knowledge River Scholars Program, a cohort-based learning community which fosters work in information science from the perspectives of historically marginalized people to build skills in cultural literacy and awareness in information services to these communities.
She is an archivist & anthropologist working in the taskscape of cultural heritage preservation, focusing on the narratives and connections we develop between humans and objects. Her work encompasses the socio-cultural and technological aspects of preservation informed by critical cultural studies. Her areas of focus include place as cultural memory, knowledge networks in communities of practice, blurred boundaries between humans and objects in life and in museums, and community-driven cultural heritage preservation.