Project STAND

Featured Collection

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The “Featured Collections” page highlights participating institutions’ collections. Each month we put the focus on one institution, where we display links to all of their collections that are related to student activism and social justice. These collections are either full, partial, or both.

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Dr. Dara Walker: Assisstant Professor, Penn State University

What's Happening Now

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Latest Blueprint Podcast Episode featuring Dr. Dara Walker, Assistant Professor, Penn State University

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Popular Resource

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Archiving Student Activism Toolkit:

Created by Annalise Berdini, Rich Bernier, Valencia Johnson, Maggie McNeely, and Lydia Tang on behalf of Project STAND, November 2019.

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Collections Data

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Check out the information on our African American collections

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Reparative Freedom

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

Project STAND’s Third Residency

Student Activism: A Reckoning in the Archives

Project STAND and the UCLA Library (@uclalibrary) are excited to announce the fellows below:
April 20–24, 2026, Los Angeles, CA.

This year’s theme is Student Activism: A Reckoning in the Archives. We aim to foster dialogue about the politics of archiving student activism amidst competing institutional interests in activist-generated materials, whether to surveil and contain dissent or to commemorate and mobilize activist legacies.

Our Residents and Keynote Speaker

Chaz Matthews

Juan Venegas

Kimora-Aoki Morley

Roshumba Mason

Mariyam Bey

Rebecca Patillo

Jovanna Walker

Bryant Partida

Karla Vasquez Perez

Airess Stancil

Dr. Robin D.G. Kelly – Keynote Speaker

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.