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January 24, 2022


The AAO’s Professional Development Committee presents


Safe Spaces for Diversity


The safe space virtual sessions are safe spaces set aside and reserved for archives workers and records managers from historically excluded groups in our profession to connect with one another in an informal, participant-driven environment. These sessions are open to students, emerging, and established professionals, as well as those working in volunteer and activist roles.

BIPOC Archivists <https://aaoo.wildapricot.org/event-4660297> , moderated by Tamara Rayan, 18 February 2022, 12 pm

LGBTQ2+ Archivists <https://aaoo.wildapricot.org/event-4660309> , moderated by Krista McCracken, 16 February 2022, 12 pm

Archivists with Disabilities, Chronic Illnesses, and the Neurodivergent <https://aaoo.wildapricot.org/event-4660318> , moderated by Sarah McDougall, 10 February 2022, 12 pm

Location: Online via Zoom

Recording: These sessions will not be recorded.

Registration: $0 (AAO members, student members, and non-members).

Meetings are governed by the AAO’s Code of Conduct <https://aaoo.wildapricot.org/Code-of-Conduct>  as well as a guideline of confidentiality. It is essential that all participants agree to keep confidential the identities of individual participants and any names that may be mentioned during their time together, as well as any attributed specific comments. Agreement about this point is required.

About the moderators:

Tamara Rayan (they/them) is a Palestinian settler and archivist. They are currently an Archives Assistant at the Art Gallery of Ontario's E.P. Taylor Library and Archives and for a number of years they have been involved with Alternative Toronto, a participatory digital archive, where they guide members of Toronto’s resistance cultures to describe and contextualize their own records. Anti-racist action and BIPOC representation within the archive has always been at the forefront of their archival work. They have been a moderator and organizer of the ACA BIPOC Forum for the past two years and they are a current Steering Committee Member of the Society of American Archivists - Archivists and Archives of Color Section. Their research interests are focused on the ways in which minority and marginalized groups document and preserve their cultural heritage in the face of social pressure, colonialism, assimilation, and political oppression.

Krista McCraken (they/them) is a non-binary, queer archivist and public historian. Since 2010, they have worked at Algoma University’s Arthur A. Wishart Library and Shingwauk Residential Schools Centre, in Baawating (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and Métis people. Krista’s research interests include community archives, Residential Schools, access, and outreach. Krista is passionate about creating spaces for LGBTQ2S+ community building and gender inclusion in the workplace. When not working they can be found drinking tea, embroidering, watching Doctor Who, and editing Wikipedia.

Sarah McDougall has been a stutterer since early childhood, and has struggled with discrimination and mental health related to her disability. She is passionate about bringing visibility and respect to people with disabilities, and is continuously learning more about herself and how to navigate the archives profession as a stutterer. She was the first archivist at the Sony Centre for the Performing Arts in Toronto, has worked numerous contracts with the Ontario government, and is currently the Archives Assistant at the Anglican Diocese of Toronto Archives. She holds a Master of Information and a Master of Museum Studies from the University of Toronto's iSchool.

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