Project STAND and AUC Robert Woodruff Library would like to express sincere gratitude for the additional support from Dr. Adriene Lim, Dean of the University of Maryland Libraries, for providing stipends to the fellows of the...
keondra bills freemyn is a writer and memory worker with a background in digital archives, collaborative data, Black history, social movements, and cultural production. She is founder of the Black Women Writers Project, an independent digital initiative supporting...
Project STAND and the AUC Woodruff Library will host a one-week virtual residency on September 13-17. The residency will invite six individuals to serve in a cohort to create an online educational resource as part of an Archiving Student Activism toolkit. The cohort...
Digital Flowers Shout Out: An AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library x Project STAND Archival Microgrant Initiative Student organizers from BIPOC communities are often the heartbeat of social movements that lead to transformative justice, the development of spaces that...
ATLANTA, Georgia, February 22, 2021 – The Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library in partnership with Project STAND has received generous funding of $750,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a three-year project: Building Capacity,...
ATLANTA, Georgia, February 22, 2021 – The Atlanta University Center (AUC) Robert W. Woodruff Library in partnership with Project STAND has received generous funding of $750,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support a three-year project: Building Capacity,...
The Barnard Organization of Soul Sisters Collection, Barnard College Archives In 1968, Barnard’s black students founded The Barnard Organization of Soul Sisters (B.O.S.S.) to foster community among Barnard’s black students. It also served as a platform for combating...
STANDing in The Spotlight is a series to highlight Project STAND members and how they use the project. Bizzell Memorial Library: Photo Courtesy Oklahoma University Libraries Photo Courtesy of Oklahoma University Libraries Joined February 2019 What They are doing...
On April 3, 2020 Project STAND received the New England Archivists (NEA) Advocacy Award during the NEA's annual business meeting. Karen Adler Abramson, Director of Archives for the JFK Presidential Library and Museum and Immediate Past President and Chair, Awards...
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) honored Project STAND and founders Lae’l Hughes-Watkins and Tamar Chute with a 2019 SAA Council Resolution for focusing on the needs and efforts of academic archives in documenting marginalized student activism and advocating...