Founding Member Bergis Jules is an archivist and public historian. His research interests include race and the history of archives, Black archiving practices, web archiving, and community-based archives. He is an advocate for community-based cultural memory organizations that prioritize documenting the lives of marginalized and oppressed people. He works with these organizations to develop solutions that can grow their capacity and help them achieve long term sustainability. He is a co-founder of Archiving the Black Web and Documenting the Now, projects concerned with web archiving training and research. He also runs the Sustainable Futures blog which is an advocacy space for community-based archives. Bergis holds a Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Riverside, and also 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.

Founding Member Jon Voss has implemented social justice strategies across sectors as diverse as finance, music, technology and culture. He helped build the Historypin network to over 4,000 cultural memory organizations, co-founded the Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums Summit in 2011 and the Cultural Heritage and Social Change Summit in 2016, and has helped design and build community-centered engagement programs around the world. Jon led the Historypin project in the US for Shift since 2011, and founded the US non-profit that would become the Shift Collective. Prior to that his career spanned economic activism, impact investing, and technology consulting. Jon uses he/him pronouns.

Founding Member Lynette Johnson is a cultural historian working with cultural heritage institutions to create programs and tools to help them better connect with their communities, mostly around shared local history. Prior to joining Shift Design, Inc in 2017, she held positions as a journalist, art director, and digital media strategist at The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, The Journal News in New York, and The Los Angeles Times, overseeing various newsroom, corporate, and community engagement projects. She has a BA in Communications from the University of New Orleans, and a Master of Preservation Studies from Tulane University’s School of Architecture. In 2019, Lynette was named a National Trust Diversity Scholar by the National Trust for Historic Places.