Hello, everyone.
I'd like to invite you to join the Privacy and Confidentiality section on Thursday, May 7, 2026 at 10:30am-11:30am PST (12:30pm-1:30pm CT) for a Coffee Chat focusing on privacy and confidentiality considerations when working with incarcerated populations and the records of incarcerated people.
Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez (University of California, Irvine) and Anu Kasarabada (University of Kentucky) will share considerations, insights, and practices surrounding privacy and confidentiality for archivists working with incarcerated people and related archival records. Brief presentations will be followed by a set of prepared questions and conclude with audience questions mediated by members of the section via chat. This event will not be recorded.
Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez will discuss her work on PrisonPandemic, a digital archive to preserve the stories of people who were incarcerated in California prisons and jails during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anu Kasarabada will discuss her experience navigating issues of privacy and confidentiality when working with the records of judges and incarcerated populations that are part of university collections.
Speaker bios:
Elvia Arroyo-Ramírez is the Digital Archivist in the Special Collections & Archives department at the University of California, Irvine. She earned her Master's in Library and Information Science at the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in art history at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her scholarship has been published in the Journal of Critical Library and Information Science, Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies, Journal of Western Archives, and the Council on Library and Information Resources Pocket Burgundy, "Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration."
Anu Kasarabada is an archivist and oral historian at the University of Kentucky, where the archivist and oral history for the Honorable John G. Heyburn II Initiative for Excellence in the Federal Judiciary. In this role, she stewards the papers of and conducts oral history interviews with federal judges, law clerks, prosecutors, public defenders, and other individuals who can help document the Federal Judiciary. She earned her Master's in Library Science in 2007 from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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Full registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82617636262?pwd=g1z5tHmb0Nw1KgELBcWlZmbkFXjakh.1
We hope to see you there,
Leslie
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Leslie Schuyler
Archivist
Lakeside School
Seattle WA
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