Nancy Godoy

Nancy Liliana Godoy is the Director of Community-Driven Archives Initiative and Associate Archivist of ASU Library's Chicano/a Research Collection. Under her leadership, the CDA team is reimagining and transforming 21st century academic libraries and archives by developing innovative solutions to dismantling power structures that lead to erasure and trauma for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities.

Godoy has received several grants including one from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ($450,000) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services ($534,975) to engage and empower historically marginalized communities in Arizona. She is the recipient of the Rising Star Award (Arizona Humanities 2017), the ASU Catalyst Award (Arizona State University 2019), the Outreach Services Award (Arizona Library Association 2019), and the Movers and Shakers - Advocates Award (Library Journal 2020), and the Archival Innovator Award (Society of American Archivists 2022).

In 2021, Godoy published “Community-Driven Archives: Conocimiento, Healing, and Justice” in the Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies (special issue on radical empathy in archival practice). The manuscript shares why she established the CDA Initiative and how the work is  deeply influenced by Queer BIPOC feminist theory. More specifically, Godoy believes Gloria Anzaldúa’s path to “conocimiento”, a Spanish word for knowledge, can be used to decolonize the mind, body, and soul of marginalized communities as well as reimagine BIPOC and Queer memory keeping.