Role: Principal Investigator

Tonia Sutherland is Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development in the School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Sutherland was an assistant professor in the Department of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and in…

Thuy Vo Dang (she/her) is Assistant Professor of Information Studies at UCLA specializing in oral history, archival studies, and ethnic studies. She is coauthor of the books, A People’s Guide to Orange County (UC Press, 2022) and Vietnamese in Orange County (Arcadia Publishing, 2015) and serves on the board of directors for Arts Orange County…

Michelle Caswell, PhD, (she/her), is a Professor in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). In 2008, together with Samip Mallick, Caswell co-founded the South Asian American Digital Archive, an online repository that documents and provides access to the stories of South Asian Americans. She is the author of…

Jennifer Douglas (she/her) is Associate Professor in the School of Information at the University of British Columbia, where she teaches courses on arrangement and description and personal and community archives in the Master of Archival Studies program. Her research has focused on theories and practices of archival representation, particularly in the context of non-organizational records;…

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…

Jamie A. Lee, PhD, is Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Associate Professor of digital culture, information and society in the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona, where they co-founded and direct co/lab: The Critical Archives & Curation Collaborative and the DS|OH: Digital Storytelling and Oral History Lab, which communicates multimodal productions…

James Lowry, PhD, is President and Director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, University of New York, and is the Ellen Libretto and Adam Conrad Information Studies Professor. He is founder and director of the Archive Technologies Lab (ATL) and honorary researcher at the Liverpool University Center for Archive Studies,…

Vanessa Reyes, PhD, (she/her) is an Assistant Professor in the Library Science Program at East Carolina University. She has over 15 years of experience working across diverse cultural and information institutions. Dr. Reyes holds a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College and an M.S. in Library and Information Studies from Florida State…

Vanessa Irvin, PhD, Associate Professor with the Master of Library Science Program at East Carolina University (USA), has authored three books and over 60 peer-reviewed publications and presentations and has been an invited speaker to over 30 panels and events. DrV has led grant-funded research projects exploring how heritage-based knowledge systems impact information-seeking behaviors and literacy practices…

Temi Odumosu, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. She is an art historian and curator with an interdisciplinary approach to visual culture, information technology, artistic practice, and living archives. Her work interrogates the visual politics and legacies of colonialism, activates collections as sites of memory and conscience, and…