Scherly Virgill

Scherly earned her M.A, in Public History from California State University, Fullerton, and a B.A. in Philosophy from California State University, Northridge. Her doctoral research is dedicated to reclaiming both intellectual and archival spaces for Black Guatemalan stories. Her research interests encompass Oral History, Afro-diasporic Studies, Public and Digital Humanities, Digital Storytelling, Archival and Knowledge Production, Cultural Geography, and Mapping. Her research project, "The Garifuna Voices of Guatemala's Armed Conflict," was prominently featured in the Winter 2020 edition of the NACLA Report on the Americas. She currently serves as Outreach Coordinator for the Digital Ethnic Futures Initiative at California State University Fullerton, and is the Project Manager and Curator of the Homegrown Heroes Oral History Project at the Civil Rights Institute of Inland Southern California. Additionally, Virgill is one of three topic editors for Community Engaged Digital Humanities in Reviews in Digital Humanities, where she contributes to advancing community-engaged scholarship in the field.