Cassie Tanks is an archivist, digital humanist, public historian, and first-generation student originally from San Diego, California. She is pursuing a PhD in World History at Northeastern University, has an MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and earned a bachelor’s in History from San Diego State University after achieving an AA at San Diego Mesa Community College. Tanks served as Dean’s Appointed Community Archiving and Oral History Liason for the Reckonings Project and worked closely with the late digital humanist scholar Angel David Nieves, the Director of the Northeastern Humanities Center and Director of Public History to lead critical archiving projects, who was also her mentor, doctoral studies chair, and advisor. She is experienced in connecting students, community, and faculty with digital humanities skills and projects. Cassie currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts with her husband, Wendell and dog Olive.
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