Bergis Jules

Bergis Jules is an archivist and a founding member of Shift Collective, a non-profit consulting and design group that helps organizations better engage, collaborate with, and reflect their local communities. As an advocate for community-based archives, he is interested in developing solutions that can grow the capacity and achieve long term sustainability in these types of cultural memory organizations, and especially those that focus on documenting the lives of marginalized people in our society. He is also passionate about incorporating ethics and care into how we collect and preserve digital content from the web and social media about people that are most vulnerable to harm in those spaces. Bergis is a co-founder and project director for Documenting the Now, which seeks to develop digital tools and best practices that support the ethical collection, preservation, and use of web and social media content, and a co-founder of Archiving the Black Web, an initiative aimed at growing web archiving skills of Black archivists and memory workers, and increasing the quantity, quality, and accessibility of web archive collections that can support the study and further documentation of the Black experience. He received a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science with a Specialization in Archives and Records Management and a Master’s degree in African American and African Diaspora Studies from Indiana University. Bergis uses he/him pronouns.

Project lead: DocNow, Architecting Sustainable Futures