Nancy Godoy

Nancy Liliana Godoy is the Associate Archivist of ASU Library's Chicano/a Research Collection and the Lead of Community-Driven Archives Initiative. She's responsible for collection development, archival arrangement--description, community outreach--exhibits, and instruction--specialized reference services. As a Knowledge River (KR) alumna, she's a passionate advocate for the Latinx community and marginalized communities in libraries and archives. In addition, she helped co-establish the Arizona LGBT History Project, an initiative to preserve local history and make archival material accessible to future generations.

In 2017, she received the Arizona Humanities Rising Star Award and was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant ($450,000) to establish a Community-Driven Archives team and preserve the history of historically marginalized communities in Arizona. In 2019, the team received a Catalyst Award from the ASU Committee for Campus Inclusion and the Outreach Services Award from the Arizona Library Association. In addition, they received a first runner up certificate for Best Electronic Research Site from Popular Culture Association. This recognition honors and celebrates an online exhibit Bj Bud Memorial Archives: Photographs & Periodicals.

In 2020, Godoy was named a “Mover and Shaker” by the Library Journal and received a Library Services and Technology Act grant ($80,111) from the Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records to support the Community-Driven Archives Initiative as the team teaches marginalized communities how to preserve their digital archives.