Profile

• • MA in Library and Information Science. Queens College, CUNY
  • MA in History. Queens College, CUNY

Obden Mondesir is an Outreach Archivist and Adjunct Lecturer at Queens College, City University of New York, and an Oral Historian working at the Weeksville Heritage Center, a multidisciplinary house museum dedicated to preserving the history of the 19th century Free Black community in Weeksville, Brooklyn, New York.

Obden has a dual M.A. in Library Science and History from Queens College and is the recipient of a West African Research Center Library Fellowship and the Citi Center for Culture + Queens Library Fellowship.

• • LBSCI 732 Archives, Manuscripts, and the Shapes of Material History

• • “The Role of Archives in Transformation, Community, and Healing During a Pandemic” by Zakiya Collier, Joyce LeeAnn Joseph, Julia Keiser, and Obden Mondésir
  • The Culinary Legacy of Brooklyn’s First Free Black Community
  • Power and Oppression in the Archive: Building a Diverse Historical Record through Oral History