Between Archives and Advocacy: Navigating Collaborative Digital Projects in the Library Ishmael Ross Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA, United States of America
This presentation explores the technical and ethical complexities of collaborative digital projects involving carceral records. Grounded in ongoing archival work with LAPD files, it offers practical strategies for sustainable access, redaction, and metadata design—while reflecting on how interdisciplinary collaboration can foster transformative learning and long-term planning in community-centered digital initiatives. Originally developed under the Mellon Foundation-funded initiative Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration, this work continues with support from an Archival Grant awarded by the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation (2025).
