Meral Agish (she/her) is an oral historian, educator, and the community coordinator of the Queens Memory Project, where she leads outreach efforts, training sessions for the public, and collaborations with volunteers, colleagues, and community partners. She is in her third semester at GSLIS, where she is focusing on participatory archiving, civic engagement, and oral history-based documentary practices.

The HASTAC Scholars fellowship program is an innovative student-driven community of graduate and undergraduate students. Each year, around 100 new Scholars are accepted into a new 2-year cohort of the program. Scholars come from dozens of disciplines and have been sponsored by over 200 colleges and universities—ranging from small liberal arts colleges to large Research 1 institutions. We are building a community of students working at the intersection of technology and the arts, humanities and sciences. HASTAC Scholars write blog posts; interview leaders within the digital research and digital humanities fields, host online forums, organize events around the future of higher education; organize collaborative book reviews; and much more. Much of the work here centers around rethinking pedagogy, learning, research & academia for the digital age.