Story And Archive: A Two-Day Oral History Workshop
About this Event
Every community has stories that deserve to be heard and preserved. This two-day workshop covers the full arc of an oral history project, from designing your blueprint to conducting trauma-informed interviews. Day one is foundations and project design. Day two is interviewing practice, question design, and working with difficult or sensitive material. No prior experience required!
The workshop is led by Natalie Milbrodt, University Archivist for CUNY and founder of Queens Memory at Queens Public Library and Fanny García, an independent oral historian with a decade of experience running impactful human rights focused projects.
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ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Natalie Milbrodt is a practitioner, educator, and consultant in Library and Information Science, specializing in oral history, post-custodial and community-led archiving, project development, and metadata best practices. With over two decades of experience across small business, academic, cultural heritage, and library settings, she currently serves as University Archivist for the City University of New York, an inaugural role focused on building a network of archives that surfaces the rich history of CUNY and the communities it serves.
Previously, Natalie was the founding Director of the Queens Memory Project at the Queens Public Library, a community-led archiving program, and Coordinator of the library's Metadata Services division. She serves on the Oral History Association Archives Caucus' Metadata Working Group and on advisory boards for New York State Historical Records, Urban Archive, The Municipal Art Society of New York's Enduring Culture Initiative, and Wikitongues. Consulting clients include DHPSNY, The Frick Collection, The Wildlife Conservation Fund, the Internet Archive, and the Leo Baeck Institute, among others.
Fanny García is the Principal & Founder of Narratives in Practice, LLC, a trauma-informed and ethical storytelling consulting firm helping people capture stories that create meaning and change. García is an award winning oral historian who recently received the Pogue Award from Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region (OHMAR). García’s path to oral history began through her grassroots activism as a social worker, where she supported survivors of sexual assault and people living with HIV/AIDS. During this time, she wrote "Portrait of Ten Women," a play based on oral histories with Latinas living with HIV/AIDS. Since 2019, García has led "Separated: Stories of Injustice and Solidarity," an oral history project documenting the experiences of families affected by the Trump Administration's Zero Tolerance immigration policy.
She approaches her work using applied oral history methods, ensuring that projects directly benefit the communities who share their stories by centering advocacy for policy change and socioeconomic support efforts into the project blueprints. Her work has been recognized with the Judge Jack B. Weinstein Award for Oral History (2017), the Columbia University OHMA Oral History Teaching and Social Justice Award (2018), the Oral History Association Emerging Crisis Award (2019), and an OHA and National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (2022). García is a graduate of UCLA and Columbia University. She is the Editorial Program Manager at Voice of Witness and currently serves on the council for the Oral History Association.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 55.20
