Micha Broadnax

Micha Broadnax is a memory worker and archival strategist currently residing on the ancestral land of the Nonotuck people. Inspired by Black feminist imaginations and space-making, she pursued the library profession to explore archiving as a practice of self-care and the possibilities for community development through archival study.  

Micha leads the execution of the Black Teacher Archive, a project envisioned and co-principally investigated by Dr. Jarvis Givens and Dr. Imani Perry with support from the Mellon Foundation and Spencer Foundation. In collaboration with colleagues at Harvard Library and across the country, she co-develops workflows and coordinates labor to support the digital centralization of materials created by African American educators in the 20th century. 

In addition to community and personal archives consultation, Micha has held positions at Mount Holyoke College, Converse, Emerson College, and Harvard Law School. They have a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology with minors in Women's and Gender Studies and Health: Science, Society, and Policy. They earned a master's degree in Library and Information Science with a concentration in archives management from Simmons University. Micha's first professional experience in archives was through the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Mosaic Fellowship at Schlesinger Library under the mentorship of Jenny Gotwals.