Carli Lowe is the University Archivist at San José State University. Her experiences working at the Freedom Archives intermittently from 2016-2019 crystalized her commitment to becoming an archivist and using that role to connect communities to transformative encounters with information. Prior to receiving her Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Carli worked as an elementary school teacher for eleven years in schools as close by as San Francisco and as far away as Addis Ababa.

Deb Schneider is a clinical social worker in private practice and at Stanford University. She also worked at the school-based health center at El Cerrito High School for ten years, creating a safer school setting for transgender and gender variant youth and their families.

Walter Turner is the Freedom Archives Board President and a professor at the College of Marin. He is the host and producer of the acclaimed weekly Pacifica Radio ​program, “Africa Today.” He is the co-author of No Easy Victories: African Liberation and American Activists over a Half Century, 1950-2000 (Africa World Press)—a panoramic view of U.S. activism on Africa. As a journalist, Turner has traveled extensively throughout the African continent, writing from South Africa, Mozambique, and Nigeria.

Eddie Yuen is a writer, editor, and radio producer who has long been involved in the archiving of social movement history. He teaches in the Anthropology and Social Change Program at the California Institute of Integral Studies.