Archives and the Black Tradition explores the significance of personal and digital archives in re/defining historical legacies, promoting narrative control and agency, and expanding conventional notions of memory, place, and truth.

keondra bills freemyn is a writer and archivist in the Black tradition whose work and research centers contemporary cultural production. She is Co-Executive Director of Black Lunch Table, a radical digital archiving project focused on Black visual artists and is founder of Black Women Writers Project, a digital archival initiative highlighting the contributions of Black women and gender-expansive writers to the literary canon. She is an alumna of Columbia University (MPA), Fordham University (BS), and University of Maryland (MLIS).

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