
Jocelyne Sanchez
Project Archivist
Chicano Studies Research Center
Issues:
LGBTQIA, Latina Futures Library & Archive
Jocelyne Sanchez (she/her/elle) is a project archivist at the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. She is currently processing the collections of faith based organizations through the National Endowment for the Humanities grant project “Religion, Spirituality, and Faith in Mexican American Social History”. Previously, she worked with the collections of Latina lesbians as a part of the Latina Futures 2050 Lab. Born and raised in Los Angeles, Jocelyne’s praxis centers the needs and voices of community members. Her personal interests lay in honoring the tradition of the living archive by using archives as a means for community formation, movement building, and queer liberation.