Adrienne Cain is Assistant Director of the Baylor Institute for Oral History and Secretary-Treasurer of the Texas Oral History Association. Though much of her recent work is in academia, she has extensive experience as a public librarian responsible for oral history archives. She has written and presented extensively on the uses for oral history in community collections, including at the 11th National Conference of African American Librarians and in the Oral History Review. Her work centers around ethical and legal considerations for oral history and the Black/African American experience as told via oral histories. 

Benji de la Piedra (M.A., Oral History, Columbia University) consults on oral history projects and teaches oral history methodology in a variety of settings, including the University of the District of Columbia, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the DC Oral History Collaborative, and the Smithsonian Institution's Anacostia Community Museum, among others. He is an independent scholar of Herbert Denton, Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison, and related topics. He is an active member of the Oral History Association, where he serves on the Diversity Committee, Equity Audit Task Force, Indigenous Caucus, and is co-chairing the organization's 2023 conference on "Oral History As/And Education." He currently directs the Herbert Denton Biography Project at the University of DC and is a Visiting Fellow at the Library of Congress John W. Kluge Center for Scholars. 

Jamie A. Lee is Associate Professor, School of Information at the University of Arizona, is the founder and director of the Arizona Queer Archives where they train community members on facilitating oral history interviews in and with their own families and communities. Lee directs the Digital Storytelling & Oral History Lab through which they have collaborated on such storytelling projects as secrets of the agave: a Climate Justice Storytelling Project, the Climate Alliance Mapping Project, CAMP, and the Stories of Arizona’s Tribal Libraries Oral History Project (with Dr. Sandy Littletree and Knowledge River). Lee’s book Producing the Archival Body engages storytelling to re-consider how archives are defined, understood, deployed, and accessed to produce subjects. Arguing that archives and bodies are mutually constitutive and developing a keen focus on the body and embodiment alongside archival theory, Lee introduces new understandings of archival bodies that interrogate how power circulates in archival contexts in order to build critical understandings of how deeply archives shape the production of knowledges and human subjectivities. For more on Lee’s projects, visit www.thestorytellinglab.io