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# 2020-12-04 STAND x Disorientations

Lae'l H-W, Sarah C., Jessica B, Donna B., Casey G.

Lael: Founder, archivist at UMD
Sarah: Political and regional collections at Middle Tenn State, STAND since 2018
Jessica: Archivist of multicultural collections at Illionois Champlain Urbana, SEC since beginning, earliest member
Donna: Archivist and Middle Tenn State, on SEC, work with student presenters at Symp
Lael: IMLS grant for symposia across country, SEC was integral, Erin T. was chair -- comms, logistics
Casey: [Intro to Diso]
Kathryn: U. Illinois oral histories seminar
Katie: interested in student publishing and student activism
Lael: 2021 hope we can grow SEC in 2021, so much where SEC should be a lead, if we get grant, workshops helping support on how to document their work, have tools to facilitate convos for engaging w university archivists, documenting the now bergis, residences for archive practitioners to carve time for thinking about supporting student activists, thinking about decolonizing instruction practices; podcast; fellow at UMD documenting amherst uprising; leigh uni documentary project; starting to see slow fruits of our labor. bergis archivists supporting activists, 100+. SEC as braintrust for some of this work. goals and objectives for SEC for 2021. can be supporting projects with grant or not. facilitating relationships with student activists/activism. orgs on campus aren't always sanctioned/funded. meeting with HBCU members.
Jessica: different freedom to make decisions at private vs public schools, dont want to put students in compromising positions, could be more outspoken after graduating
Lael: discussion with student activism toolkit committee about anonymizing contributions, what can we do to protect students; starting to see scrubbing photos; descriptions of photos but not writing names. 
Sarah: main point of contact for students and groups
Lael: something you wanna be a part of, not a heavy obligation, but creates lots of work to do committee reports; top priorities?
Casey: basic archival quesitons to answer about Taxonomy, Accessioning etc., Oral Histories
Katie: How to get started?
Lael: With grants will build out platform with Omeka S. Could support and provide; not something where we'd own your stuff just support
Donna: Casey, Katie, send me an email at Donna.Baker@mtsu.edu so I can send you OHA stuff
Lael: formally open SEC to student reps?
why after grad are you still involved?
Sarah: student activist at MTSU, i've become the memory link, facilitating connections; connecting alumni to archive in safe and ethical way, linking generations

https://standarchives.com/project-stand-podcast/
lael's article: https://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/73931

amherst project?