Gabriel Solís

Gabriel Solís is a researcher, writer, strategist, and consultant with two decades experience working at the intersection of documentation, archives, and cultural memory. His writing has appeared in Texas Monthly, Oxford American, Scalawag, Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics, and Power, and Kula: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies. He is the recipient of the 2018 Pushcart Prize for Nonfiction and was named the 2023 University of California Regents Fellow in Information Studies. He currently advises several initiatives to protect endangered stories, records, and archival repositories, including with the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, UCLA, UC Irvine, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the American Immigration Council. He co-authored the report, Preserving Endangered Cultural Memory at a Time of Heightened Risk, which shares findings from an evaluation of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Recordings at Risk grant program. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of The Visiting Room Project and the Advisory Team for We Here’s Dream-Shaping Our Community project. He is a Lecturer in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies.