Abstract
Acknowledging the Resistant Knowledges External Reviewers
One of our goals as a collective when we initially organized to engage in collaborative scholarly editorial work was to provide honorariums to external reviews. Honoring our external reviewers along with making our EFI editorial work freely accessible remains quite important to the CRTc. In the 38:4 (2022) CRT Special Issue through the support of the EFI managing editor, Fidelia Ibekwe, we are able to provide free access. Yet, we were not able to modestly compensate our external reviewers for our initial effort. For this 2024 (40:4) Resistant Knowledges Special Issue we were able to achieve both our goals: honorariums for reviewers and free access to the special issue content.
Sumayya Ahmed, PhD
Sumayya is the Executive Director of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) at the University of Chicago. Prior to this appointment, she taught as an Assistant Professor at the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science and at University College London’s global campus in Doha, Qatar. Her published research has focused on documentary heritage, societal provenance, archival history, oral history, and the politics of cultural heritage preservation in North Africa and the region called the Middle East. Dr Ahmed has also published on racism in the university and responses to calls for social justice in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museum (GLAM) workplaces.
Lorena Camargo Gonzalez, PhD
Lorena [she/her/ella] is an Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Studies in Education and Gender Equity at Sacramento State University. Dr Camargo Gonzalez earned her PhD from UCLA’s School of Education and Information Studies with a specialization in Race and Ethnic Studies. Her educational experiences as an immigrant and first-generation college student inform her interdisciplinary approach in drawing from Critical Race theories, Chicana/Latina Feminist theories, and historical methods such as oral histories and archival research to address the following areas: 1) the activism of Latina/o/x librarians; 2) racial justice within library services, and 3) the history of Latina/o/x children’s literature.
Sujin Huggins, PhD
Sujin is a Professor in the School of Information Studies at Dominican University, River Forest, IL. Dr Huggins teaches in the areas of youth services, reference, and community informatics. Among many professional associations, she is a member of the American Library Association (ALA), the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) and the United States Board of Books for Young People (USBBY). Her research interests include children’s literature of the African Diaspora, with a specialization in Caribbean children’s literature, critical pedagogy, and community-based participatory projects.
Vanessa Irvin, EdD
Vanessa is an associate professor with the Master of Library Science Program at East Carolina University (USA). Dr Irvin has authored three books, over 60 peer-reviewed publications and presentations, and has been an invited speaker to over 30 panels and events. She has also led grant-funded research projects exploring how heritage-based knowledge systems impact information-seeking behaviors and literacy practices in daily life. Irvin’s work investigates libraries as collaborative communities for literacy justice for diverse and local/Indigenous populations. DrV is equally interested in the social informatics of informal learning and the evolution of librarian professional practices with reference services and emerging technologies. Irvin serves as Co-Editor of the open-access peer-reviewed journal, The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI), where she manages an editorial team of 20 librarians and an editorial board of 35 LIS scholars worldwide. For 2024–2025, Dr Irvin will be President of the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE).
Cecilia Salvatore, PhD
Cecila is a Professor in the School of Information Studies (SOIS) at Dominican University (DU), River Forest, IL. Dr Salvatore is SOIS’ Archives/Cultural Heritage Certificate Program Coordinator. She has an international reputation for critical compassion and consciousness related to cultural heritage. Cecilia is a member of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) and active in its Institutions Local History and Genealogy Collections Section. She is also a founding board member of the Indigenous Pacific Islands Knowledge United as well as an editorial board member for the journal Libraries: Culture, History, and Society, which is the official peer-reviewed journal of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association. Dr Salvatore is one of the Co Principal Investigators for DU SOIS’ portion ($750,000) of a multi institutional collaborative faculty Mellon Foundation Public Knowledge Program grant ($5,967,700): Faculty Organizing for Community Archives Support (FOCAS).
Kenjus Watson, PhD
Kenjus (he/him) is a father, partner, brother, uncle and son who is passionate about reaching back to grounded wisdom, seeding into present challenges, and bridging towards more loving and sustainable futures. Kenjus is also an Assistant Professor of Urban Education at American University where he teaches courses in the EdD Educational Policy and Leadership Program within the School of Education. Additionally, Kenjus works as research lead, educator, and co-founder of the Institute for Regenerative Futures in the College of Education at San Jose State University. His research has focused on the biopsychosocial impact of every day anti-blackness and colonization (i.e., racial microaggressions) on Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color, as well as the promise of school abolition and apocalyptic education to bring about healing and wellness for people and the planet. Kenjus earned his PhD in Education with an emphasis in Race and Ethnic Studies at UCLA.
2023–2024 Critical Race Theory Collective Community
Stephanie Birch
Jon E. Cawthorne, PhD
Vanessa (Chacha) Centeno
Marilyn Clarke
Alice R. Corble, PhD
Rebekah Cumpsty, PhD
Amanda DeSimone-Shabrack
Anthony W. Dunbar (Tony), PhD
Elizabeth (Liz) Grauel
Alison Hicks, PhD
Natasha Howard
Aisha Johnson, PhD
Edith Mendez
Ramona Naicker
Ana Ndumu, PhD
Fezile (Fez) Sibanda
Mikaela Slade
Angela D. R. Smith, PhD
Evangeline (Vann) Stanford