Zakiya Collier
Zakiya Collier is an archivist and memory worker based in Brooklyn, NY. Zakiya is the founder of Collier Collaborations, an archival consulting and education company that prioritizes and champions collective archival stewardship. She is an Adjunct Professor of Library and Information Science at Queens College and a member of Shift Collective where she supports communities in collectively developing cultural memory practices and designing sustainable programs to preserve and share their own stories. Their recent work includes serving as the first Digital Archivist at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Project Archivist at Weeksville Heritage Center, Archivist for the visual artist, Marilyn Nance; and Co-Editor of a special double issue of The Black Scholar on Black Archival Practice. She is the recipient of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York’s Educational Use of Archives and Archival Achievement Awards.