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Manuscripts and Archives Librarian, Newberry Library
Catherine Grandgeorge is the Manuscripts and Archives Librarian at the Newberry Library. She works on collections that document Chicago and the Midwest across the humanities, and is involved in crowdsourcing an archive of modern protest materials.
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Director of Archives and Operations, Sixty Inches From Center
Jennifer Patiño Cervantes is a librarian, community archivist, writer, editor, and poet. She is the Director of Archives at Sixty Inches From Center and Data and Digital Scholarship Diversity Resident Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ayer Indigenous Studies Librarian, Newberry Library
Analú María López (Xi’úi/Guachichil) is a Librarian, Archivist, and Photographer living in Zhigaagoong (Chicago). Interested in underrepresented Indigenous narratives dealing with identity, language, and decolonization she writes and creates photographic-based projects exploring...
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Artist
Ivan LOZANO is an artist and co-founder of the feminist video collective Austin Video Bee, the net art blog CTRL+W33D, founder of the digital press IMAGE FILE PRESS, and founder of Latinx/Indigenous artist podcast interview series ARCHIVES + FUTURES.
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Poet, Artist, Educator
H. Melt is a poet, artist, and educator. They are the author of On My Way to Liberation and editor of Subject to Change: Trans Poetry & Conversation. In 2018 they worked with the Newberry Library as part of the Chicago Archives + Artists Project.
Director of Chicago Archives + Artists Project, Sixty Inches From Center
Kate Hadley Toftness is Sixty's Director of the Chicago Archives + Artists Project. In 2015, she managed collections for the artist Theaster Gates at the Stony Island Arts Bank and is currently Special Projects Associate at Northwestern University's Block Museum of Art.
