Board Member

Jamie A. Lee, PhD (they/she) is an award-winning social justice documentary filmmaker, archivists, and activist in areas of LGBTQI+ rights and environmental / climate justice. They are Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Associate Professor of Digital Culture, Information, and Society in the College of Information Science at the University of Arizona, where they co-founded and direct the Critical Archives & Curation Collaborative, co/lab; the Arizona Queer Archives, and the Digital Storytelling & Oral History Lab, which communicates multimodal productions research to a broader public as engaged research and, importantly, as a vehicle for social justice. Their book Producing the Archival Body (Routledge, 2021) interrogates how power circulates in archival contexts and builds critical understandings of how archives influence and shape productions of embodied knowledge. Lee was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Early Career Grant to inquire into the politics of description in community-based archives and also the prestigious Agnese Nelms Haury Program for Environment and Social Justice Faculty Fellowship and the Digital Borderlands Grant from the UA Libraries through Mellon Foundation to develop their Digital Humanities project, secrets of the agave | a Climate Justice Storytelling Project. (www.thestorytellinglab.io)