Susan D. Anderson is the History Curator at the California African American Museum, and a member of the editorial board of California History journal. She has been a curator and director at the California Historical Society in San Francisco, the African American Museum & Library at Oakland, and UCLA Library Special Collections.Micha Broadnax (she/they) is the project manager for the Black Teacher Archive, an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to create a non-custodial digital collection of publications by Black educators during Jim Crow segregation. Micha also serves as the College Archivist at Mount Holyoke College and as a researcher/archivist for Anita F. Hill at Brandeis University.Cathy Thomas is a creative writer and literary scholar invested in black feminist and womanist pedagogy, practice, critique, and play. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of California at Santa Barbara where she teaches and researches Afrodiasporic Literature across periods & genres, especially speculative fiction, Caribbean culture, comic books, and science & technology studies.Dr. Maïko Le Lay is a scholar and practitioner from France and Japan. Her research bridges the fields of dance, education, African and Asian diasporic studies, and digital humanities. After a postdoc in the Connected Learning Lab at UCI, Le Lay now holds a postdoc fellowship from the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University.Nanditha Krishna is currently a third-year student of the Integrated Masters(M.A) Program in English Language and Literature at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. As an avid Digital Culture, New Media and Digital Humanities enthusiast, some of her academic interests include digital pedagogy, digital history, communication, instructional design and digital storytelling. Her website is https://nandithakrishna.home.blog/.My name is MJ Teater (she/they) and I am a second year student in CSUSM’s masters in history program and I hope to begin work for an MLIS in the fall. My research is focused on BIPOC queer communities of the AIDS crisis in San Diego. Jina DuVernay is a librarian and archivist pursuing a PhD at Clark Atlanta University (CAU) where she works as an assistant at CAU’s Center for Africana Digital Humanities. She is also a member of the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers’ Steering Committee.Dr. Philana Payton is an assistant professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research centers Black women performers and Black cinema history using theories in Black studies, performance, and women and gender studies.María Esther Hammack is the Barra Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Mexican scholar and public historian whose work centers, through a gender lens, the histories of liberation and abolition in North America. María is currently revising her first book project, Channels of Liberation: Freedom Fighters Across South of US Slavery, a manuscript that explores & recovers the transnational experiences of Black Americans, situated as freedom fighters, who left the United States for Mexican spaces between 1789 and 1865.Jennifer Tilton is professor in Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Redlands, currently working with the Bridges That Carried Us Over Project: Documenting Black History in the Inland Empire a community based archive founded by Wilmer Amina Carter and now housed at CSUSB. As we build this archive, we are developing digital stories, community events and StoryMaps to make visible the diverse histories of the Inland Empire. Chris Cabrera Thompson is currently the IT Manager at the UCLA Department of English. Chris provides technology support for faculty, staff, students in the Department of English and Writing Programs.Carli V. Lowe is the University Archivist at San José State University’s Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library. Her most recent project, “Black Spartans (1907-1948),” can be accessed at https://library.sjsu.edu/exhibits/black-spartans.Yohanna Joseph Waliya is a Nigerian digital poet, distant writer, novelist, playwright, winner of the Janusz Korczak Prize for Global South 2020, Electronic Literature Organization Research Fellow and UNESCO Janusz Korczak Fellow, Creator & Curator of MAELD and ADELD [2022 Emerging Open Scholarship Award: Honourable Mention, C-SKI], Executive Director of AELA& ADELI, and Hastac Scholar 2021-2023 . He writes in English and French. Among his works are : La révolte de vie (play), Monde 2.0 (play), Hégémonie Disparue (novel), Quand l’Afrique se lèvera (novel), Homosalus (digital poetry), Momenta (digital poetry), @TinyKorczak (Twitterbot-poetry), Climatophosis (digital poetry: The best use of DH for Fun 2020) etc.Utitofon Inyang is a doctoral student (ABD) in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages, University of California, Riverside, where she is a Dean Distinguished Fellow. She completed her B.A. at University of Uyo, Nigeria, and her M.A. at University of Ilorin, Nigeria. Her research considers how specific African environments and lifeworlds define forms of literary production that emerge from them and her dissertation, Like a Mask Dancing: Visuospatial Geographies in West African Anglophone Literature examines the potential of dance as an analytic category for critiquing space, subjectivity, cultural ecologies and related geographies of meaning in contemporary West African Anglophone and Afro-diasporic literature. She is interested in African Literature, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Theory, Global Anglophone Literatures, Spatial Literary Studies and Digital Humanities as research areas and is fluent in Efik, Ibibio, French and English.Jasmin Young is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Riverside in the Department of Ethnic Studies. As a historian, her research interests focus on Black twentieth-century freedom struggles with specialization in the Black Power Movement (BPM). Young’s Digital Humanities project derives from her extensive research on Black women in the BPM. She is currently building a Black Power Digital Archive (BPDA). The chief aim of the BPDA is to collect, conduct, preserve, and digitalize first-person accounts from BPM participants, as the basis for an open-access resource for anyone interested in learning about the BPM.Raegan C. Stearns is the Associate Archivist of Alabama State University. Her research explores the legacy of Black photography in Northwest Louisiana and the Great Migration of Black Louisiana to California. Julia Friedman (she/her) is a first year student in California State University San Marcos’ masters in history program. She is interested in gender & sexuality studies and media history. She is currently studying gender, race, and nineteenth-century sensationalist press. After graduation, she plans in pursuing a MLIS degree. Jarre Hamilton is a 7th year PhD candidate at UC Berkeley in the department of Anthropology. Her research follows the intersections between collaborative community-engaged archaeology, Black heritage preservation, identity, and the environment.Maira E. Alvarez is an American Council of Learned Societies Emerging Fellow at Arizona State University, School of International Languages and Cultures. Alvarez’s scholarship is an effort to bridge the gap between research and community and amplify the conversation to new ways of thinking and understanding colonial violence within the analog and digital cultural records that has long silenced the production of knowledge by communities of color.Reginald Constant is the Public Services Librarian at Laney College in Oakland, California. He holds an MLS from the CUNY Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College and a master’s degree in adult education from San Francisco State University. His research focuses on the digital divide, online learning, and community college students of color.Annemarie Perez is an Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at California State University Dominguez Hills. Her area specialty is Latina/o literature and culture, with a focus on Chicana feminist writer-editors from 1965-to the present, and digital humanities and digital pedagogy and their intersections and divisions within ethnic and cultural studies. She is writing a book on Chicana feminist editorship.Dr. Casey Nichols is an Assistant Professor of History at Texas State University. Her areas of research include African American History, Mexican American History, Civil Rights, Social Justice Movements, and California. Catherine Gudis is an associate professor of History and director of the Public History Program at University of California, Riverside, where she works with students and community partners on multi-platform, place-based projects that focus on Southern California and explore how public space is privatized, landscapes racialized, and systemic inequalities contested. These currently include two related projects: Bridges That Carried Us Over: Documenting Black History in the Inland Empire and A People’s History of the I.E.: Storyscapes of Race, Place, and Queer Space. The latter aims to document the memories and lived experiences of working people, BIPOC and LGBTQ+ community members in Inland Southern California, and to geolocate related historical data. Both projects aim to serve as research tools and cross-generational community building, and to examine through a relational lens racialized landscapes in the Inland Empire.
