—–need bio & photo——Jessica C. Neal (Jes) is a Black, queer, millennial archivist and memory worker from Mobile, AL. She received her BA in African World Studies from Dillard University and her MLIS in Archival Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In addition to her work in academia, Jes has centered her career and research on building frameworks around the ethics of documentation that focus on Black-led social movements, Black literary history and culture, art, and liberation throughout the diaspora, with a specific emphasis on the Black American experience. She is committed to partnering with communities of color to recover, document, and maintain autonomy over the processes in which their narratives are preserved and accessed, particularly through the oral history tradition and digital environments. She is primarily able to do community work as a workshop facilitator for the national organization, Documenting the Now (DocNow). Jes has experience working in academic libraries and archives, historical societies, federal government, and private sector organizations as an archivist and records manager. She currently labors as the Sterling A. Brown Archivist at Williams College, Records Management Program Assistant at MIT, and manages her own archival consultancy, Rememory Consultants.

Mark Zimmerman graduated from the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at UW-Milwaukee with an MLIS degree this past May. Mark is currently working as a Librarian Associate at the Milwaukee Public Library. In his final semester at SOIS he conducted fieldwork in collaboration with the Wisconsin Library Association. Before pursuing a degree in LIS, Mark taught high school English for almost two decades. Mark has a love and passion for helping and connecting with others. It has been a dream of his to become a librarian and now that he has completed his degree, Mark hopes to get hired as a permanent librarian at the Milwaukee Public Library and make his dream come true!