Project STAND

Reparative Freedom

Centering on the necessity of memory as the root of power.

Special Thanks

Mellon Foundation

We want to give special thanks to the Mellon Foundation for their support, and to the UCLA Library, including Athena Jackson, University Librarian; Jennifer Osorio; Andrea Hoff; and all of the UCLA Library staff who handled the logistics and helped facilitate the activities for the fellows throughout the week. Here we share some highlights of the residency. All of the photos, and videos will be archived in our Omeka-S site that is coming soon!

2nd residency project stand group panel discussion at spelman

Day 1 Freedom Dreaming Highlights

Day 2: Community Protocols and Praxis of Trust Events

Making Zines with Julie Fiveash

Tour of UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center

Led by Xaviera Flores

Film and Television Archive

Maya Montanez Smukler

Tour of CAAM Exhibition and Building a Liberatory Archive

Group Presentations

One of the deliverables from the fellows was to create a zine and present on it. Their work will be featured in the Omeka-S repository. We will give you a taste of what they did.

Grants

Diving into the Numbers

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded Project STAND (STudent Activism Now Documented) $92,096 under the National Leadership Grant for Libraries Program.

The Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library in partnership with Project STAND received generous funding of $750,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Project STAND in partnership with Shift Collective and Black Girl Archivist, LLC, received a 1.5 million dollar grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.