danielle nanos-luz
memory worker, archivist, community organizer

danielle nanos-luz is a memory worker, community organizer, and creative spirit. She works across disciplines and mediums, with a practice deeply rooted in the teachings of relationship, ancestral healing, and revolutionary struggle.

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 homeland alongside her kasamas in GABRIELA Oakland, an anti-imperialist grassroots 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 participated in talks at CSU East Bay and UC Davis and was a panelist at the 2022 All-In Co-Creating Knowledge for Justice Conference at UC Santa Cruz.

→ CV, email danielleluzbelanger@gmail.com