4th Annual Digital Knowledge Sharing Workshop Keynote Conversation with Stephen Curley, Director of Digital Archives for the National Native American Boarding Schools Healing Coalition

Join us on March 9 at 5:30 p.m. EST for the keynote event of the APS's Library & Museum’s 4th annual Digital Knowledge Sharing workshop. This program is hosted by the APS’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR) and the Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI), supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

This virtual keynote conversation event will feature Stephen Curley, Director of Digital Archives for the National Native American Boarding Schools Healing Coalition, in conversation with Brian Carpenter, Curator of Indigenous Materials at the APS's Library & Museum.

The conversation will cover topics such as processes for Tribal and non-Tribal archives to reach out to each other to foster ethical stewardship and curation of Indigenous archival materials, current efforts in the digital curation of Native American boarding school resources, the centrality of honoring and acknowledging relationships versus academic tendencies of individualistic work, and a look back and look forward at developments in the archives field surrounding ethical best practices in culturally responsive care and curation of Indigenous archival collections. The conversation will be followed by virtual audience Q&A. 

This event will take place on Wednesday, March 9, 2022 at 5:30 p.m. EST via Zoom. The event is free of charge; registration is required to attend. The event will be recorded and posted online for people unable to attend.

Stephen Curley (Dine/Navajo Nation) is the Director of Digital Archives for the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS). He is a professional archivist with extensive experience working with Tribal community archives and museums. Mr. Curley holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology with a minor in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona and a Master of Arts in Library and Information Science from the University of Arizona with a focus on archival practices and methodologies. He has worked with Tribal governments, groups, and communities regarding the development of cultural heritage institution services, programming, and information management capacities. He has also served as the Chair of the Society of American Archivists’ Native American Archives Section (SAA-NAAS) from 2018 to 2019 and is currently serving as a Council Member for the Society of American Archivists for the 2020-2023 term.