I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland's College of Information Studies, and I explore how immigrants acculturate to U.S. information systems with particular focus on Black diasporic immigrants. My researcher positionality intersects with my lived experience as an Afro-Latina immigrant and work experience as an HBCU academic librarian. I argue that LIS approaches toward immigrants and HBCUs reflect a parellel history of race-making and alienation in the U.S. My studies and courses center on the question, "When information acts as a boundary, how does it dictate whether, where, and how one is allowed to belong?" Black librarianship offers a blueprint for information empowerment.

 andumu@umd.edu