Danita Mason-Hogans is a native of Chapel Hill NC for seven generations of “movement people” on both sides of her family. Danita is public memory worker who works with school systems, universities, activists and historians to document local and national history from the “inside out” and from the “bottom up.” She is the founder and director of Bridging the Gap a non-profit that provides educational opportunities for the descendants of the enslaved in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

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Professor Winget specializes in digital preservation, digital repositories and collecting institutions, representation of non-textual materials, and collaborative technologies. As a teaching faculty member at SILS, she teaches classes in ethics, organization, community building, and community archiving. Professor Winget brings expertise in data curation, system development and grant management to this project; and she is also very interested in effective community building and developing collaborative community partnerships.

Tatiana Hargreaves is an archivist, educator and musician with a MSLS from UNC-Chapel Hill. As a graduate student, Tatiana has worked at the Southern Folklife Collection processing AV collections, creating LibGuides and teaching instruction sessions. Tatiana's background is in music performance and ethnomusicology and teaches part-time in the music department at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Shaina Leverett (she/her) is a recent UNC SILS graduate and specialized in human-centered archive practices. She is from Florida and aims to work with records that point towards a more transformative South. Currently, she is working on documenting the stories of bartenders in her home of Durham, NC.

Gabriela Santana is a master’s student at SILS with an interest in web development and design. She worked with this project to create a UX and web design for the group.

Doss Hill is a student at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is interested in archival work, digitization, and visual art. Upon graduation, she looks forward to building a career that serves her community through creativity and relationship-building. This student's role in the project was team communicator.

Amanda Breeden is graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2023 with her MS in Library and Information Science. She is mostly interested in archives, public history, and museum services. Her role in the project was as a literature researcher.

Rachael Brittain is a Library Science student with a concentration in Archives and Records Management at UNC Chapel Hill. She is interested in photographic and music collections and hopes to work in an archive or digital asset management. She acted as project manager.

Molly Dignam is an MSLS student at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. She is interested in archival work, reference services, and history. After graduation, she is hoping to begin a career working with both materials and users in archives. Her role within the project was recordkeeper.

Zoey Ralston is a student at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and is interested in creating a diverse, inclusive environment within the library. She hopes to become a reference librarian in an academic library after graduation. Zoey’s role in this project was to be one of the Poster Designers and Logistics Specialists, creating our final deliverables and ensuring access for both the team and the supervisors. She also shared responsibility for archival research, oral transcription editing, searching for related information in newspaper archives, and other duties as needed for this project.

Olivia Reich is a student at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. They are interested in audiovisual archiving, specifically archival work involving film. Upon graduation, Olivia hopes to begin a career in a museum or moving image archive. For this project, Olivia served as a logistics and design specialist.

M. Isabela Tibbits is a student at the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill and is interested in public librarianship and archival work. Upon graduation, she looks forward to developing a career that works with the community and helps individuals with information-seeking needs. This student's role in the project was one of the literature researchers.