Featuring three project teams across ACLS’s Digital Justice Grant Program and its Digital Extension Program, this panel will interrogate the multifaceted and multivalent relationship between digital justice and disaster recovery within various geographic locales across the Global North and South.

I will be speaking about my work on the ACLS-funded project Personal Writes the Political. We are working with a sensitive collection of 100,000 letters written by predominantly rural women in South Africa during Apartheid. We will be exploring the impact of such a collection and the ethics behind applying machine learning to cultural heritage collections.