Speakers

  • Steven D. Booth
  • Archivist
  • Getty Research Institute

Steven D. Booth (he/him) is an archivist, independent researcher, and co-founder of The Blackivists, a collective of trained Black memory workers in the Chicagoland area. He is currently managing archivist of the Johnson Publishing Company (JPC) Archive, co-owned by the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. His previous experience includes facilitating access to presidential records at the US National Archives and Records Administration for 11 years and cataloging the papers of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Boston University and The King Center. ​Steven holds a BA from Morehouse College, MS in Library Science from Simmons University and participated in the 2015 Archives Leadership Institute at Luther College. He is an active member of the Society of American Archivists (SAA) having served on Council from 2017-2020 and in 2022 was inducted as a Distinguished Fellow.


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