danielle nanos-luz
memory worker, archivist, community organizer

danielle nanos-luz is a memory worker who utilizes film, writing, dialogue, and action to center the possibility of collective liberation in everyday life. Focusing on the transformative potential of memory, dreams, and world-building, her explorations range from reconstructing inherited narratives to envisioning futures through an internationalist lens.

danielle was born and raised in the Bay Area and is currently based on Huchiun Ohlone land. She is an archivist at the Freedom Archives, where she preserves progressive movement histories from the 1960s-90s. She also wages a struggle for the liberation of her people and her homeland alongside her kasamas in GABRIELA Oakland, a grassroots community organization of Filipina women.

danielle received her B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2017, where she studied postcolonialism and visual culture as an Art History major. She earned her MLIS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2022. danielle is a 2021-2023 Kaleidoscope Scholar (Association of Research Libraries), 2021 Midwest Library Service Scholarship recipient (UIUC), 2020-2021 Spectrum Scholar (American Library Association), and 2020 Sylvia Murphy Williams Scholar (Illinois Library Association). She has moderated an international webinar in collaboration with KADAMAY, an organization of urban poor Filipinos based in the Philippines and spoken at the All-In Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference at UC Santa Cruz.

→ CV, email danielleluzbelanger@gmail.com