The SAA Privacy & Confidentiality Section invites you to a coffee chat on Friday, October 24, 2025, at 2pm EST/11am PST with two speakers who will discuss how they manage the records of legal advocacy organizations. Cassandra Mensah, Archives Counsel for the Legal Defense Fund, will talk about how she determines what archival materials may be shared with the public; and Will Clements, Public Policy Papers Archivist at Princeton University, will share how he manages the records of the American Civil Liberties Union as he receives them from the organization. A Q&A will follow the talks. Please join us for this informative conversation!
This event will not be recorded.
Date: October 24, 2025
Time: 2pm EST/11am PST
Speakers:
Will Clements is currently Public Policy Papers Archivist at the Seeley Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University. In this role he processes personal papers and organizational records in the Public Policy Papers, which comprise a number of collections documenting United States public policy, diplomatic history, and international development. Will’s current work at Mudd also includes co-managing Princeton Special Collections’ ArchivesSpace instance. Previously, Will was Digital Projects Archivist at Washington State University’s Center for Digital Scholarship and Curation, where he managed descriptive metadata of digital cultural heritage materials on behalf of a number of Native American tribes and nations in the Northwest.
Cassandra Mensah is the Archives Counsel for the Legal Defense Fund’s (LDF) Thurgood Marshall Institute. Here, she provides detailed privilege review of LDF’s extensive archives to assess which items LDF can share with third party researchers and the general public. Prior to joining LDF, she was an attorney at the National Women’s Law Center on the Education & Workplace Justice team. There, she advanced federal and state policies for marginalized students and represented a student survivor of sexual harassment in federal court. She is based in Washington, D.C.
Moderator: Anu Kasarabada, Archivist and Oral Historian, University of Kentucky
Registration link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/aUHVn3I9QB2-aohKwIyU3g#/registration
Please share widely! Contact Anu Kasarabada with questions about this event at akasarabls@gmail.com.
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Anu Kasarabada
Archivist/Oral Historian
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY
akasarabls@gmail.com------------------------------