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.

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.

Kathryn Nasstrom is an oral historian, writer, editor, and Professor Emerita of History at the University of San Francisco. Her publications include Everybody’s Grandmother and Nobody’s Fool: Frances Freeborn Pauley and the Struggle for Social Justice, and she is a past editor of the Oral History Review, as well as a founding series editor for Oxford University Press’s oral history book series. During her years at USF, she established the History Internship Program and placed interns with Freedom Archives since 2003.

Matef Harmachis is an organizer working in pan-African and Third World decolonization solidarity, education, labor and political prisoner liberation movements. He spent 20 years as a journalist and editor, then another 20 years at high schools teaching social science. He holds degrees in journalism, education and law. His objective is to apply our collective knowledge and experience to the Movement for social justice.

Elizabeth Peters Robinson has been a community media activist, advocate and producer for more than 40 years at the local, national and international levels including her most recent programs, “No Alibis” and “Third World News Review” produced on KCSB fm, and her work with AMARC (World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters). As a journalist and Arab American she has particularly attempted to provide corrective information about the Middle East for listeners and viewers. While the seeds of her political commitments might have been planted when she witnessed inequities as a high school student, they blossomed and matured as a consequence of her relationship with her life partner, Cedric J. Robinson, and the world he opened to her.  She occasionally writes, frequently broadcasts, has mentored hundreds of broadcasters and other people. She is convinced that every voice is a ‘radio voice’ and that another world is possible and necessary.  At this moment, it bears saying that she has been educated and worked at premier public universities (Univ. of California, Univ. of Michigan, SUNY) which are now under attack.