Diversity & Dissent Fund editorial board

Reveal Digital’s editorial board is composed of representatives from funding libraries, with members. The board plays a pivotal role in the selection of new digital projects and provides oversight as each selected project is developed.

Current members

Jessica Ballard, Archivist for Multicultural Collections & Services, University of Illinois

Conor Casey, Labor Archivist, Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries

Lillian Castillo-Speed, Head of Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley

Thai Jones, Curator, U.S. History, Columbia University

Nick Okrent, Coordinator for Humanities Collections, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Rodriguez, Coordinator for Digital Humanities, Michigan State University

Karla Strand, Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin

Katrina Windon, Accessioning and Processing Archivist, University of Arkansas

Former board members who helped shape our publishing program

Lori Birrell, Associate Dean for Special Collections, University of Arkansas

Jeff Moyer, Founder, Reveal Digital


American Prison Newspapers advisory panel

Reveal Digital is developing the American Prison Newspapers collection with the help of an advisory panel representing diverse perspectives from communities impacted by the content. We are grateful for their time and counsel.

  • Dan Berger, Associate Professor and Director of the Washington Prison History Project, University of Washington at Bothell
  • Ellen Belcher, Special Collections Librarian, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • William Drummond, Professor of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, adviser to the San Quentin News, and author of Prison Truth: The Story of the San Quentin News
  • Marianne Fisher-Giorlando, Angola Museum Executive Committee member, researcher for The Angolite, and professor of Criminal Justice at Grambling State University, emerita
  • Doran Larson, Professor of Literature, Hamilton College and Director of the American Prison Writing Archive
  • Kerry Myers, Deputy Director at the Louisiana Parole Project, former editor of The Angolite
  • Ana Noriega, Assistant Director of Collections Management, Colby College
  • Robert Pollock, Program Manager, PEN America Prison Writing Program
  • Philip Vance Smith II, Editor, Nash News
  • Tony Wallin-Sato, Programs Coordinator for Project Rebound Humboldt State University

Documenting White Supremacy and its Opponents in the 1920s advisory panel

In autumn of 2021, Reveal Digital convened two meetings of an eight-member advisory panel of librarians and scholars, all with experience tackling the complexities of preserving hard history. The mission for the panel was to advise us on whether we should continue publishing this collection, and if so, how best to enable the important scholarly work the content makes possible while mitigating harm the material might cause. We are immensely grateful for the open, deliberative, and insightful engagement each person brought to the panel.

  • Dorothy Berry, Digital Curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
  • Theresa Byrd, Dean of Libraries, University of San Diego
  • Javanica Curry, Senior Director, Institutional Development and Strategic Partnerships, JSTOR
  • Linda Gordon, University Professor of the Humanities, New York University
  • Rebecca Hankins, Professor and Curator of Africana and Area Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies, Texas A&M University
  • Felix Harcourt, Assistant Professor of History, Austin College
  • Curtis Kendrick, Dean of Libraries, Binghamton University
  • Scott Richert, Publisher, Our Sunday Visitor