User:Herrada

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My name is Julie Herrada and I'm the curator of the (Labadie Collection ), located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. It is an archive of research and primary source materials documenting social protest movements worldwide from the 19th century to the present. I am a trained librarian and archivist; I received a Master's in Library Science with a Certificate in Archival Administration from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

My inclusion in this project came about purely by accident because some librarians who attended United States Social Forum (USSF) found out that I was collecting WSF materials for the Labadie Collection. I had already collected some materials from people who attended the WSF in Porto Alegre, Brazil and Caracas, Venezuela. There is much more work to be done to document the WSF so that it is a cohesive and organized archive that will be useful to a wide population. The processes through which the WSFs are created and the efforts for building a more equitable world must be documented or they will be lost and forgotten when people go home. I am honored to be included in this project.

I would also like to thank Esther Obachi and Mikael Book not only for making this trip possible for me, but for making my stay here in Nairobi very interesting and exciting, and taking good care of me while I am so far away from home.