Carla Alvarez is the U.S. Latina/o Archivist at the University of Texas at Austin Libraries, where she is responsible for the Voces Oral History collection. In her work, Alvarez leads processing activities and preservation of Latinx archival collections, provides reference services, and participates in collection development, donor relations and outreach. Additionally, she has presented on archival inclusivity at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Society of American Archivists. She is also actively involved with the Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO), a freely accessible platform for searching finding aids from repositories across Texas.

Mark Phillips is Associate Director of Associate Dean for Digital Libraries, UNT Libraries. He has been involved in a number of research projects related to metadata change, metadata quality, user interface development for digital libraries, and web archiving. He is the architect of the UNT Libraries digital libraries’ infrastructure, including the Portal to Texas History and the Gateway to Oklahoma History. 

Lae’l Hughes-Watkins is the University Archivist at the University of Maryland and the creator of the reparative archives framework. She is also a founder of Project STAND, the first-of-its-kind collaborative effort among archival repositories within academic institutions across the country to create an online portal featuring analog and digital collections that document student activism primarily focused on historically marginalized communities.

Francena F. L. Turner is a CLIR/Melon Fellow and Postdoctoral Associate for Data Curation in African American History and Culture. In her current role, she is the project manager & principal interviewer for an oral history project that is a part of the Reparative Oral Histories Initiative. Oral history is central in much of her work. She engages in excavation work in an effort to bridge the past and present. Her research interests include histories of Black education, Black women’s higher education, activist scholars, & Black Feminism(s). Her research focuses on historical and contemporary issues of equity, agency, and thriving in education through critical study of minoritized student experiences.