Franny Gaede, Azle Malinao Alvarez, Ana-Maurine Lara, and Alaí Reyes-Santos, and Kate Thornhill presented a round table session titled “Decolonizing Methods in the Digital Humanities: AfroIndigenous Healing Traditions in the Caribbean and the Pacific Northwest” at the REFORMA National Conference on Saturday, November 6th, 2021.

Round Table Session Description: Alaí Reyes-Santos and Ana-Maurine Lara will share the process of interviewing AfroIndigenous healers through a decolonial lens. Franny Gaede, Kate Thornhill, and Azle Malinao Alvarez will discuss how in collaboration with researchers, they translated a decolonial research methodology into a digital humanities project. Each panelist will share from the website and their experience to illustrate our methodology. We will ask for participants to interact with the site and provide feedback to foster conversation. Participants will learn to locate AfroIndigenous healing traditions across diaspora; understand researchers’ methodology for respectful community engagement; and relate researchers’ methodology to digital research practice writ broadly.