RYAN A. KOONS

I grew up on and now live on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands and waters of Susquehannock and Piscataway Indigenous peoples, and have also lived on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded lands of Tongva and Muskogee peoples. As a settler, I respectfully acknowledge and honor the traditional owners and custodians of these stolen lands where I live, work, and learn... As a Certified Archivist, I am involved in all of the processes of selection, organization, description, preservation of, and outreach for, historically-important records. I also conduct research on the relationships between conflicting worldviews/ontologies in archival practice. For example, given that archives derive directly from Euro-American and colonial worldviews, how can we as archivists equitably collaborate with Indigenous peoples and other populations?