Sady Sullivan

oral history & embodiment & politicized somatics

oral history / public history consultant

https://www.sadysullivan.com/

Sady Sullivan (she/her/hers) is a skilled oral historian, public historian, educator, somatics practitioner, and consultant providing specialized services to organizations, communities, families, and individuals in New England and New York City. Throughout the Northeast, Sady has partnered with organizations, communities, and individuals to create diverse multimedia resources, including digital archives, audio walking tours, curriculum kits, museum exhibitions, books, and digital publications. Her oral history interviews are used as primary sources in K-12 curricula, walking tours, podcasts, and public history exhibitions at esteemed institutions such as Brooklyn Historical Society, New-York Historical Society, El Museo del Barrio, and Brooklyn Navy Yard BLDG92.

Experience

Sady's expertise has also led to the creation of educational tools, including the resource guide titled "If You're Thinking about Starting an Oral History Project," featured in the publication "The City Amplified: Oral Histories and Radical Archives" by The Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center in 2019. Actively involved in the Oral History Association, Sady has served on the task force that revised the OHA Principles and Best Practices in 2018. Sady has taught oral history workshops and semester-long courses at various institutions, including the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY; Museum of Chinese in America; The Laundromat Project; The New School; Columbia University; Brooklyn College; Yale University; LIU Brooklyn; Weeksville Heritage Center; Brown University; NYU; Recess Art; and Oral History Summer School. Sady holds a Master's degree in Cultural Reporting & Criticism from New York University and a Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Women's Studies from Wellesley College.

Services

Sady specializes in collaborating with communities and organizations committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, as well as decolonization efforts. Her expertise lies in deconstructing the ways in which Whiteness has influenced and shaped these institutions throughout their history. Through her skill in designing and producing ethical and relationship-based oral history projects, Sady helps preserve complex and multi-layered histories. By engaging in this process, institutions gain valuable insights that support their ongoing efforts for transformative change.

Languages

English

Regions Available for Work

United States- Northeast

Other Regions: New York||Massachusetts||Connecticut|| Rhode Island||Maine||New Hampshire||Vermont||New England

Specialty

Sady is a queer European-American (white) cisgender neurodivergent woman who comes from a mixed-class background and is grateful to understand from lived experience a range in socioeconomic status from food insecurity to expendable income. Sady is committed to collective liberation, and unraveling Whiteness and the American myth of progress.

Purpose of Contact

I am available to answer questions, or provide mentorship to other oral historians
I am available for hire - as an oral historian, consultant, presenter, educator, or related services
I am available to collaborate - on research, community projects, artistic endeavors, or other joint undertakings with peers

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