Credits & Acknowledgements

Project Producers / Coordinators

Amanda Belantara is a librarian at New York University Libraries. She aspires to cultivate community and social change through creative exchange. Belantara holds an MA in Visual Anthropology / Ethnographic Documentary from the University of Manchester, UK and an MSLIS from Pratt Institute, NYC.

Emily Drabinski is Associate Professor at the Queens College Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She holds an MA in composition and rhetoric from Long Island University, Brooklyn, and an MSLIS from Syracuse University. She served as 2023-24 President of the American Library Association.

Project Credits

Matthew Haugen — Metadata creation

Inaiah Lujan — Project identity

Marii Nyrop – Website Development and Design

Acknowledgements

This project, like those it documents, would not be possible without the collaboration and cooperation of many. First and foremost, we give our heartfelt thanks to each project contributor: Richard Chabrán, Lillian Castillo-Speed, K.J. Rawson, Adrian Williams, Mary Ellen Capek, Sarah Pritchard, and Alissa Cherry. We are continuously inspired by your work, your stories, and your voices.

The Ways of Knowing Oral History Project was funded in part by the New York Metropolitan Library Council Equity in Action Grant.

Thanks to Noor Al-Samarrai, Sonia Chaidez, Kip Clark, Justin Hicks, Hana Crawford and Stephen A. Poon for on location recording.