Acknowledgements

We want to extend our thanks to Kelsey Brown, our podcast editor and producer, and Alexandra Alvis, our mentor and facilitator, in creating this project. The Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage provided us with the opportunity to collaborate across time zones.

Speakers

Ursula Romero is Outreach Librarian at the Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington.

Jasmine Sykes-Kunk is Head of Research Services, John Hay Library, Brown University Library.

Krystal Tribbett is the University of California Irvine Libraries’ Curator for Orange County Regional History. 

Yao Chen is the Director of East Asian Collection at the University of Chicago Library.

Jaime Valenzuela is a Knowledge River Scholar (Cohort 12), and is the Archivist and Scholarly Communications Lead at the Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, University of Arizona.

Jhensen Oritz is Librarian at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.

Lorena Gauthereau is the Digital Programs Manager at the University of Houston’s US Latino Digital Humanities Center (USLDH)/Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Program.

Yuqiao Cao is the Visual Literacy Librarian and Museum Educator at University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press.

Zayda Delgado is the Supervising Librarian at the Sonoma County History & Genealogy Library. 

Rhiannon Sorrell (Diné) is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts, Humanities, and English and is the Instruction and Digital Services Librarian at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona, on the Navajo Nation. 

Rosa Peña (podcast guest) is Library Assistant I at the Los Angeles County Library and President at La Historia Historical Society.

RBS-Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage

In June 2019, Rare Book School received a $1.5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage, a six-year program which aims to advance multicultural collections through innovative and inclusive curatorial practice and leadership. Forty-five fellows who identify with diverse racial or ethnic communities and/or who work primarily with collections that document minority, immigrant, and non-Western cultural traditions will participate in this program over six years.

Comprising three overlapping cohorts of 15 fellows each, the fellowship will seek to fulfill four core goals: 1) developing skills for documenting and interpreting visual and textual materials in special collections and archives; 2) raising awareness within professional communities about the significance of inclusive, multicultural collections, including their promotion, development, and stewardship; 3) building connections with diverse communities and publics through strategic programming, outreach, and advocacy; and 4) advancing careers by establishing new pathways and skills for professional growth. See the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion & Cultural Heritage page for more information.