Responsibilities, Ethics, and Access: A Conversation with the Authors of Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Indigenous Data

Still from Awasəwehlαwə́lətinα wikəwαmok | They Returned Home (2023), Andreas Burgess & Jane Anderson in collaboration with James Francis, Jennifer Neptune & Darren Ranco. ©️ Penobscot Nation and Local Contexts. This material carries TK Attribution, TK Outreach, and TK Non-Comerical Labels.

Event Details

This webinar will be presented in English and Spanish (special thanks to Wikimedistas de Uruguay).

Join us for Responsibilities, Ethics, and Access, a conversation with the authors of Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Indigenous Data, a new resource developed by Local Contexts and Creative Commons.

During this webinar, we’ll explore how cultural institutions can apply practical, community-centered approaches to Indigenous collections while balancing openness with respect for Indigenous protocols, consent, and control.

We’ll explore key questions:

Meet the speakers

  • Jane Anderson

    Director, Indigenous Data Law Lab, NYU; Co-Founder, Strategic Advisor, and Council Member, Local Contexts

    Jane Anderson is an Associate Professor at New York University in Lenapehoking (New York) and Global Fellow in the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy in the Law School at NYU. Jane has a Ph.D. in Law from the Law School at University of New South Wales in Australia.…

  • Maui Hudson (Whakatōhea)

    Local Contexts Council Founding Member, Strategic Advisor (Whakatōhea Nation)

    Maui Hudson is from Whakatōhea, Ngā Ruahine and Te Māhurehure. He is aProfessor and Director of Te Kotahi Research Institute at the University of Waikato, focusing on the application of mātauranga Māori to decision-making across a range of contemporary contexts from new technologies to health, the environment to innovation. Māui…

  • Hop Hopkins

    Local Contexts Executive Director

    Hop (he/him) is a social movement strategist and scholar who has spearheaded social justice campaigns for over 25 years.  For the past decade, Hop has focused his movement work on building a multiracial united front at the intersections of land, Indigenous sovereignty, reparations, and Black liberation. These efforts aim to…

  • Corrie Roe

    Local Contexts Director of Programs

    Corrie Roe (she/her) is the Local Contexts Director of Programs. In her role, Corrie supports Indigenous communities, institutions, and researchers to learn about and adopt the Local Contexts system. Before beginning her current position, Corrie was the Director of Outreach & Strategy (October 2023-March 2025), Institution Outreach Manager (October 2021-October…

  • Anne Young

    Director of Legal Affairs and Intellectual Property at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

  • Brigitte Vézina

    Director of Policy

    Brigitte is passionate about all things spanning culture, arts, handicraft, traditions, fashion and, of course, copyright law and policy.  She gets a kick out of tackling the fuzzy legal and policy issues that stand in the way of access, use, re-use and remix of culture, information and knowledge. Before joining CC, she…

    attribution: Brigitte Vézina (Photo by Victoria Heath, CC BY)

  • Dee Harris

    Director of Communications and Engagement

    Dee Harris is a global advocacy strategist and communications leader who has spent her career working in spaces where strategy and story meet, making the case that when they’re aligned, communications become the engine of change. At Creative Commons, she serves as Director of Communications and Engagement, bringing decades of…

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