Community Archiving Happy Hour
The Community Archiving Happy Hour is a free monthly online meet-up for people interested in community archiving. New participants can sign up to join their google group for information on how to join the happy hour meetup and announcements from members. The group's members contribute collectively to Community and Personal Archiving Resources.
This is a complete schedule of their previous and upcoming meet-ups.
Upcoming CAHH meet-ups
[edit]Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Guest speaker: Morgan Davis Gieringer, Head of Special Collections, University of North Texas
Time: 10:00am PT, 11:00am MT, noon CT, 1:00pm ET
Thursday, September 10, 2026
Guest speaker: Camille Lawrence, Black Beauty Archive
Time: noon PT, 1:00pm MT, 2:00pm CT, 3:00pm ET
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Guest speaker: Corey Lewis, MD Community Archives Network, Maryland State Archives
Time: 1:00pm PT, 2:00pm MT, 3:00pm CT, 4:00pm ET
Tuesday, November 10, 2026
Guest speaker: Krystal Mejias and Destiny Mata from LES Yearbook
Time: 11:00am PT, noon MT, 1:00pm CT, 2:00pm ET
Thursday, December 10, 2026
Guest speaker: TBD
Time: 1:00pm PT, 2:00pm MT, 3:00pm CT, 4:00pm ET
Past CAHH meet-ups
[edit]Wednesday, July 8, 2026
Guest speaker: Robert LaRose from DCOHC
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Guest speaker: Dan Erdman from Media Burn Archive
Friday, May 8, 2026
Guest speakers: Krystal Tribbett, Audra Eagle Yun, and Julia Huỳnh from UC Irvine Libraries Special Collections and Archives. Together they are project co-leads for Community-Centered Archives Practice: Transforming Education, Archives, and Community History (CCAP TEACH
Thursday, April 7th, 2026
Guest speaker: Charanya Ramakrishnan from The Louis Armstrong House Museum
Wednesday, March 4th, 2026
Guest speaker: Mallory Furnier from LA as Subject's Archives At Risk Committee Self-Assessment Program at California State University, Northridge
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2026
Guest speakers: Chloe Bordewich and Lydia Harrington from the Boston little Syria Project
Friday, January 9th, 2026
Guest speaker: Kristen Whitson from WiLS & Recollection Wisconsin
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Guest speaker: Dartricia Rollins from Georgia Dusk oral history project
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
Guest speaker: Steven Sielaff from Oral History Association Executive Board Listening Tour
Friday, October 10, 2025
Guest speakers: Joan Ilacqua and Mic Hamilton from Queer History Boston
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Guest speakers: Kate Dollenmayer, C. Diaz and Pamela Vadakan from Home Movie Day
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Guest speaker: Carmaletta M Williams from Black Archives of Mid-America in Kansas City
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Guest speakers: Emma York and Laura Orleans from Casting a Wider Net
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Guest speakers: Scout Zabel and Claudia from ABC No Rio
Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Guest speaker: Andrea Nelson from Rikers Public Memory Project
Tuesday, April 1, 2025
Guest speaker: Ines Aisengart Menezes from Maretorios
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Guest speaker: Donna Braquet from Voices Out Loud Project at the University of Tennessee Knoxville
Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Guest speaker: Marie Lascu and other volunteers from the Community Archiving Workshop team
Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Guest speakers: Andrew Elder and Carolyn Goldstein from UMass Boston’s Mass. Memories Road Show and RoPA Road Map for Participatory Archiving programs
Tuesday, December 5, 2024
Guest speaker: Rebecca Hernandez, the inaugural Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
Guest speaker: Fanny Garcia from Voice of Witness
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Guest speaker: Meral Agish, from Queens Memory Project at the Queens Public Library
September 3, 2024
Guest speaker: Anna Trammell from The Internet Archive's Community Webs Program
August 6, 2024
Guest speaker: Beth Castle from Warrior Women Project
July 2, 2024
Guest speaker: Syreeta Gates from Gates Preserve
June 4, 2024
Guest speaker: Maggie Schreiner and other volunteers from Interference Archive
May 7, 2024
Guest speakers: Maigen Sullivan and Joshua Burford from Invisible Histories
April 7, 2024
Introductory meet-up