Claudia Friedel (She/Her)

• Gender Identity: Femme
• Transgender
• Sexual Orientation: Bisexual
• First generation college student
• Race, Ethnicity, and/or Nationality: SWANA–3rd generation, European–2nd Generation, US
• Hometown: Boston

As a library and information scientist/archivist and artist, I identify connectivity amongst, uplift, and amplify stories, so they may be discovered. I am committed to dismantling structures that treat access to knowledge economies as intuition instead of a privilege, as systems built on this doctrine play an active role in systemic oppression. I am passionate about economic democracy, racial justice, LGBTQIA advocacy, and the manifestation of collective knowledge historical/contemporary and communal responsibility toward our collective futures. As an activist and archivist, I have a creative approach to deepening and widening the Libraries ecosystem–amplifying change narratives and combatting erasure of BIPOC and LGBTQIA fight genealogies and voices.

Contact Claudia for academic support, research support, career support, student life, coming out, mentoring, and general networking.