A Framework for Future Preservation: The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs’ Black Archival and Cultural Stewardship Practices in Chicago’s South Side – Nov 21, 2025

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) invites you to join us for a presentation in our 2025 Fellows Fall Speaker Series. Sophia Sanzo-Davis will share the results of her research this summer as a BMRC Research titled “A Framework for Future Preservation: The Legacy of Margaret Burroughs’ Black Archival and Cultural Stewardship Practices in Chicago’s South Side”

Sophia Sanzo-Davis is a cultural worker from the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated with honors from UC Berkeley in 2021 with a BA in African American Studies and a minor in Public Policy. Since graduating, Sophia has worked in Community Engagement at the Brooklyn Museum where she managed institutional programs including the launch of the inaugural Museum on Wheels project—a mobile extension of the museum that brings art-based programming across the borough. Her research interests include Black archival histories, institutional cultural stewardship, segregation and gentrification, sites of memory, and Black visual culture.

Join us online via Zoom: https://bit.ly/3JuGXxC.