Tova Harris (she/they) holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Master of Science in Information Science from the University at Buffalo. Her academic work is situated within information science, with research interests at the intersection of digital literacy, community-centered archiving, and educational innovation. She is particularly interested in library makerspaces as sites of formal and informal learning, creativity, and community engagement.

Through her professional experience working in public library makerspaces, she began examining how narratives of neutrality and innovation often obscure deeper structural inequities within library spaces. Her research reconceptualizes makerspaces as sites of identity formation, storytelling, and archival practice, expanding their function beyond technical skill-building to include cultural memory and community knowledge production.

She is the creator of "In Our Own Words," a community-centered digital archive grounded in decolonial archival praxis. Her work explores narrative authority, participatory archiving, and the role of lived experience in shaping professional memory within librarianship.