Local Contexts
Corrie Roe is an experienced professional in the fields of museum studies and Indigenous data sovereignty. Currently serving as Director of Programs and Director of Outreach & Strategy at Local Contexts since March 2021, Corrie Roe supports Indigenous communities and researchers in adopting systems that uphold Indigenous cultural authority. Previous roles include Institution Outreach Manager and Institutional Liaison, where efforts were focused on the Local Contexts Hub. Prior to Local Contexts, Corrie Roe worked as a Production Coordinator in Science Visualization at the American Museum of Natural History, facilitating scientific data accessibility through various digital media platforms. Earlier experience also includes roles at ISG Productions, NYU's Museum Studies Student Organization, New York City Fire Museum, and the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. Corrie Roe holds a Master's Degree in Museum Studies from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Vermont.
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Local Contexts
Every Indigenous community has cultural and biological collections and data within national archives, libraries, museums and other public and private repositories that they do not own, do not control, and cannot govern circulation over. Significant information about these collections, including individual and community names and proper provenance information is absent. Issues of responsibility, ownership, as well as the incomplete and/or significant mistakes in the metadata extend to every other knowledge asset or digital record building upon this information. The Local Contexts project was developed in 2010 and grew from the needs of Indigenous and local organizations who wanted a practical method to deal with the range of intellectual cultural property issues that arise in relation to managing cultural heritage materials, Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous data. Local Contexts offers a robust system of digital labelling to intervene in the structural and ongoing colonial digital legacy of Indigenous erasure. The Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels and Notices work to enhance and legitimize locally based decision-making and Indigenous governance frameworks for determining ownership, access, and culturally appropriate conditions for sharing historical, contemporary, and future collections of cultural heritage and Indigenous data.