The House Archives Built Book Talk

Join Library Futures for a conversation between Dorothy Judith Berry, author of The House Archives Built, and archivist and memory worker Zakiya Collier. The House Archives Built is a collection of essays exploring archives from the lens of an institutional professional and an inheritor of centuries worth of Black memory. It is the first publication of We Here Press and sold out its first two print runs–don’t miss this chance to hear all about it!

Dorothy Judith Berry is the author of The House Archives Built and Other Thoughts on Black Archival Possibilities. She graduated from the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology with an MA and the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, with an MLS. In 2020-2021 Berry was honored with Library Journal’s “Movers and Shakers” award and the Society of American Archivists’ Mark A. Greene Emerging Leader award. Berry’s work focuses on utilizing digital opportunities to enrich understandings of African American history, with a particular interest in archival discovery.

Zakiya Collier is a multidisciplinary archivist, memory worker, and educator whose work explores the role of cooperative archival practices in sustaining cultural memory. She leads The Black Memory Workers, a community of over 350 members committed to practicing care and intention in the long-term preservation of Black life. Zakiya is currently an Adjunct Professor at Queens College (CUNY) and New York University, Program Director for Archiving the Black Web, and was recently a 2025 Artist-in-Residence with The Laundromat Project. She is also a co-producer on the forthcoming documentary, Somebody’s Gone, and co-editor of a special double issue of The Black Scholar on Black Archival Practice.