Cohort 1:

Meet the archival volunteers from our Guerilla Archiving Program Summer 2025.

Keturah Nichols

Keturah “Keke” Nichols is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Texas at Austin. She is a literary scholar whose work centers on Afro-Caribbean women writers.

University of Texas at Austin

Leiry Santos

Leiry Santos is an administrator at New York University's Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, where she works to create inclusive spaces that empower students from underrepresented backgrounds. She has a passion for history and believes that preserving our shared stories is essential to both her professional work and political identity.

New York University

Álvaro Ramírez is an undergraduate student majoring in Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. He is currently writing his undergraduate thesis about Dominican intellectual history in the mid-twentieth century. Álvaro also works as a Research Assistant on Urban Planning and Black Geographies research about Dominican society.

Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo

Álvaro Ramírez

Wesleyan University

Darlene de la Cruz

Darlene de la Cruz is a Campus Engagement Fellow with the Center for Prison Education at Wesleyan University. She graduated with a bachelor's in black Studies and Sociology from Wesleyan University in 2025.

Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras

Lynn M. Juarbe Cubero

Lynn M. Juarbe Cubero is an Assistant Librarian at the library of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus. She specializes in sustaining the newspaper collections and the miscellaneous materials at the library.