Project Leads: Sarah Smith-Benanti (Development and Alumni Relations) and Chris Jones (Library, Archivist of the College)
Vivero Fellow (Fall 2021, 2022-2023): Claire Burns
An idea hatched during Multicultural Reunion planning weekend and debuted at the 2019 Multicultural Reunion, the Multicultural Alumni Archive is a collaboration between students, alumni, staff, and faculty that established an Internet-based platform for collecting and documenting the histories of Grinnell College’s rich legacy of multicultural student organizations. Its goals are to capture, preserve, and share the institutional memory that has gone undocumented, and to show the impact that multiculturalism has had in shaping the College’s history. The project began with visual web-based timelines that painted broad strokes of important events within the Multicultural Leadership Council (MLC) student organizations.
