Organizers & Sponsors

Organizing Committee

  • Stanley Griffin (Chair), Deputy Dean, Undergraduate Studies (Humanities), University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
  • Rosemarie Heath, Head, Department of Library and Information Studies, UWI Mona
  • Suchetta Stephenson, Marketing Officer, Faculty  of Humanities & Education, UWI Mona

Programme Committee

  • James Lowry (Chair), Associate Professor, City University of New York, Lenape and Matinecock land, Turtle Island
  • Sumayya Ahmed, Executive Director, Black Metropolis Research Consortium, Homelands of the Ojibwe, Odawa, Peoria, Potawatomi and Miami peoples, Turtle Island 
  • Jeannette Bastian, Professor Emerita, Simmons University, Turtle Island
  • Sindiso Bhebhe, Lecturer, Charles Sturt University, Australia, the land of the Wiradjuri, Ngunawal, Gundungarra and Biripai peoples.
  • Janelle Duke, Archivist, National Archives of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Stanley Griffin, Deputy Dean, Undergraduate Studies (Humanities), University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
  • Heather MacNeil, Professor, University of Toronto, traditional land of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca, and the Mississaugas of the Credit River, Turtle Island.
  • Tracy Maniapoto, Lecturer, School of Information Management, Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Tribal affiliations: Ngā Wairiki, Te Āti Haunui-a-Pāpārangi, Ngāti Tūwharetoa, Ngāti Kahungunu ki Te Wairoa, Ngāti Porou
  • Mpho Ngoepe, Professor, University of South Africa
  • Maria Cristina Betancur Roldan, Titular Professor, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, land of the Wayuu, Zenú, Nasa, Pastos, Emberá, Misak, Kogui, Arhuacos, among others.
  • Pimphot Seelakate, Lecturer, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
  • Eric Stoykovich, College Archivist and Manuscript Librarian, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, USA, land of the Sicaogs, Poquonocks, Wangunks and Tunxis.
  • Melissa Taitano, Assistant Professor and Pwo Navigator, University of Guam
  • Kirsten Thorpe, Associate Professor, Indigenous Archives and Data Stewardship Hub, Jumbunna Institute of Indigenous Education and Research, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Cultural affiliations: Worimi People, New South Wales, Australia, working from the land of the Gadigal people.