Sarah Dziedzic is an oral historian, project consultant, grant advisor, researcher, and workshop facilitator based in New York City. She has produced oral history projects with Storm King Art Center, New York Preservation Archive Project, Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, and the Columbia Center for Oral History Research, among others. She has supported archival projects at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Lunder Institute for Contemporary Art, the Estate of Félix González-Torres, and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. Alongside community-based cultural worker, Jess Lamar Reece Holler, she co-developed Equity Budgeting, an approach to creating budgets for cultural projects. She has served on the Archival Best Practices Task Force of the Oral History Association, and is co-chair of the Independent Practitioner Task Force, where she works to establish fair labor standards and build solidarity among oral historians and other cultural workers. She has written about conducting oral histories with visual artists for the Brooklyn Rail, and advocated for remote interviewing in oral history, citing demands from the disability justice movement. She has also produced literary memoirs with Seven Stories Press and Autonomedia, and was a founding board member of Word Up Community Bookshop, a volunteer-run, multilingual bookstore and cultural space. She graduated from Columbia University’s Oral History MA program in 2011, and lives in Queens with her partner and their many houseplants.
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Location: I'm based in New York City and can travel throughout the greater New York City area as well as to Philadelphia, New Jersey, or the Hudson Valley.
Languages: English
Looking for: Full Time, Part Time, Freelance, Consulting
Skills/Interests: Interviewing, Teaching (workshops), Presenting, Audio editing, Consulting, Curating, Multimedia
Email: sarahdziedzic@gmail.com