Samip Mallick proves that you don’t need to be woo in order to connect with ancestors. Samip is co-founder and executive director of the South Asian American Digital Archives and shares some powerful stories of ancestors that he encountered through historic research. Lots of helpful hints and insights in this episode!

Samip Mallick is the co-founder and executive director of SAADA, which he has guided from its inception in 2008 to its place today as a national leader in community-based storytelling. Mallick's background includes degrees in computer science and library and information sciences and work related to international migration and South Asia for the for the Social Science Research Council and University of Chicago. Mallick currently serves on the Library of Congress Connecting Communities Digital Initiative advisory board. He also previously served as an archival consultant for the Ford Foundation's Reclaiming the Border Narrative initiative and on the Pennsylvania Governor's Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs.

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