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January 28, 2027

Building a Network of Southern Memory Workers: An Interview with Ashby Combahee

  • January 28, 2027
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Ashby Combahee is the Library & Archives Program Manager at Highlander Research and Education Center and co-founder of Georgia Dusk: a southern liberation oral history, as well as the Southern Memory Workers Collaborative.

In this conversation with Sophie Ziegler, hear Ashby’s experience building and maintaining networks of memory workers across the U.S. South, and learn about upcoming projects relevant to community archives and community-based librarians.

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Ashby Combahee

Ashby Combahee is an oral historian, archivist, and educator whose work centers community memory, movement history, and popular education. They are the Library & Archives Program Manager at Highlander Research and Education Center and co-founder of Georgia Dusk: a southern liberation oral history, which documents the histories of reproductive justice organizers, birthworkers, abortion providers, and other movement builders in metro Atlanta. Ashby is also co-founder of Olamina Folk School for Land, Memory, and Craft based in Tuskegee, AL.