The online event will be live-streamed and open to the public. However, only registered conference attendees will be able to participate in the Q&A following the talk.
Steven De'Juan Booth (he/him) is an archivist, researcher, and co-founder of
The Blackivists, a collective of trained Black memory workers who provide expertise on archiving and preservation practices to communities in the Chicagoland area. His work and research interests include analog and born-digital audiovisual materials, Black cultural heritage preservation, community archives, and digital scholarship. He is currently the archivist/project manager of the Johnson Publishing Company Archive for the Getty Research Institute and the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
In 2020, Steven co-edited with Stacie Williams
Loss/Capture, an editorial project exploring the state of Black cultural archives in and beyond Chicago, presented by
Sixty Inches From Center, a Chicago-based arts publication and archiving initiative. He is currently working on a book project with Barrye Brown documenting the contributions and impact of African American archivists in SAA. He is also researching Black LGBTQIA spaces and newsletters published in the Midwest as sites and sources of knowledge production and sharing.
Steven is part of a long lineage of Black information professionals who have matriculated from Morehouse College (BA in Music) and Simmons College (MS in Library Science).
You can read more about his work on his website at
http://www.stevendbooth.com/.
