My labor includes archival union, a consultancy for oral history project design and archives, and archival producing for TV, film, and podcast productions to help achieve their research, permissions, and licensing goals.
I’m also a Privacy Advocate with the Library Freedom Project, a curator of oral histories for the Oral History Archives at Columbia, and have served as a visiting and adjunct associate professor at Barnard College teaching oral history methods and social movements theory. I volunteer as Advocacy Director for the Archivists Roundtable of Metropolitan New York.
My research and praxis areas are archives, privacy, and cultural studies.
My publications include Living for the Revolution, Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 (Duke University Press, 2005), Still Lifting, Still Climbing: African-American Women’s Contemporary Activism (New York University Press, 1999), and Stories of Oprah: the Oprahfication of American Culture (University of Mississippi Press, 2010).
Currently, I’m researching and constructing an archives-based biography about Dorothy Dean, as well as working on a project applying the Buddhist Dhamma to contemporary digital life. I recently applied my curiosity of archives to producing, Pop Records, a podcast about the everyday records and archives we take for granted.
Pronouns I respond to are she/her/hers, and I am oriented toward a future of us and y’all.