The BMRC Welcomes Tolu Balogun, Postdoctoral Fellow in Community Archives

The BMRC is pleased to welcome Tolu Balogun as its Postdoctoral Fellow in Community Archives. Tolu brings extensive experience in records and archives management, having previously worked with several international organizations including at the United Nations. Tolu holds doctoral and master’s degrees in records and archives management from the University of Zululand, South Africa and the University of Ghana.

As BMRC Postdoctoral Fellow in Community Archives, Tolu supports and helps manage the Mellon Foundation funded BMRC-FOCAS project that works to empower community archives, diversify the field of archives, and make accessible the history of Black Chicago through paid graduate student internships at local community archives. He is a resource on archival practice for student interns and community archives, will work to produce and publish research on the BMRC FOCAS project, and support the incorporation of documentation generated from the grant project into the BMRC Archives Portal.