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  • 9/6/2023 3:00 PM CDT
  • 9/6/2023 4:30 PM CDT
  • Virtual
  • Azalea Camacho
  • Amalia Castañeda

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Strengthening DEIA Goals through Collaboration: Strategies for Building Community Partnerships

Relationships and people are at the core of archival community outreach. Join us as we help you develop or strengthen partnerships centered on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA) principles. Trust, honesty, respect and consistency are key to establishing sustainable and meaningful collaborative community partnerships. In this webcast, you will learn how to center DEIA principles in your community outreach initiatives in order to sustain authentic partnerships that continuously activate archival materials via instruction, exhibitions, programming and collection development. Our Community Partnership Toolkit is intended to guide institutions in achieving inclusive, equitable and impactful outcomes. Participants will walk away with strategies that will help them develop practices that extend beyond collecting, and one-time events and programming.

Upon completion of this course you’ll be able to:

  • Identify strategies for developing or strengthening existing community partnerships 
  • Develop a people-centered approach to effectively engage community stakeholders
  • Learn strategies to pitch initiatives, develop programming and establish buy-in from stakeholders

Instructor bio:

Azalea Camacho is the Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at the University Library of California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA). Over the past decade, she has worked to strengthen community partnerships and foster student curiosity in the field by providing engaging opportunities for the campus community. She holds a BS and an MLIS with a concentration in Archival Studies from San Jose State University.  

Amalia Castañeda is the University Archivist at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) Gerth Archives and Special Collections. In addition, she serves as Board President at the Museum of Social Justice (MSJ). Her research interests include fostering diversity in special collections librarianship and the relationship between “urban renewal” and historical preservation in Progressive Era Los Angeles. She holds a BA and an MLIS from UCLA, and a History MA from Cal State, Los Angeles. 

Fees: Advance / Regular 

SAA Members: $49

Employees of SAA Member Institutions: $49

Nonmembers: $49


Limited enrollment. Webcast will be available on-demand within two weeks after the live presentation.