Edith Méndez (she/her/hers) is a community archivist, artist, and educator dedicated to preserving Mexican and Chicane cultural heritage. Her work focuses on traditional Mexican art forms, decolonizing archival practices, and amplifying community voices through oral history. She has conducted bilingual oral histories in her family’s hometown of Copándaro de Galeana, Michoacán, as part of an ongoing effort to document underrepresented narratives. Currently, she is an intern with the Dominican University FOCAS grant, where she is recording and transcribing bilingual oral histories for a grassroots social justice organization in Chicago.
