Jennifer Garcon is the Public and Community Data Curation Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Libraries. She previously worked as an assistant curator and collection development specialist at HistoryMiami Museum. At Penn, she works to expand the libraries capacity to support the preservation of a vulnerable collection of data, through strategic partnership building and community collaboration. Jennifer is a historian of media and grassroots movements in Latin America and holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of Miami. She is currently a Research Associate for the Library of Congress’s Radio Preservation Taskforce and a Research Data Alliance Fellow, and a coordinator with the Smithsonian’s African American Museum of History and Culture’s Hometown Treasures program. Learn more about her work here.
Krystal Strong is the founder of Re/Member Black Philadelphia and a native Philadelphian. Currently an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at the UPenn, she holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research and teaching focus on activism, the cultural and political power of youth, and the role of schools as sites of political struggle in Africa and the African Diaspora. Krystal is actively involved in community organizing work in her hometown and brings this commitment to local issues and communities to her scholarship and pedagogy. Learn more about her work here.