Jennifer Garcon, a member Archives for Black Lives, will discuss the group's community archiving work that has been her focus for the last few years. She will describe how the urgency of our current historical moment is changing both its focus and the intention of cultural memory work and will lead a discussion on how institutions can proactively leverage their resources to support the documentation and preservation of BIPOC histories in ways that foreground equity and self-determination. 

Bio

Jennifer Garcon, Ph.D. is an organizing committee member of Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia (A4BLIP). Her work focuses on developing archiving and preservation initiatives geared toward protecting and safeguarding archival materials of communities experiencing gentrification. She has worked on Philadelphia-area community archiving efforts and programming, and is a planning member of the forthcoming Hometown Treasures program (postponed due to COVID) in partnership with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and the Free Library of Philadelphia. 

This program will be conducted via GoToMeeting. A link will be shared with a confirmation email to the address associated with your registration the morning of November 17.

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