Formed in 2023, The Creative CoLab is the creative data science hive mind of Dana Reijerkerk and Dr. kYmberly Keeton. The CoLab’s research focuses on community, data science, and immersive interactive experiences.
Dana Reijerkerk
Dana Reijerkerk (M.S.I. in Information, B.A. in American Indian Studies) is a data consultant, freelance digital asset manager, writer, and indie developer based in the USA. Her recent works have appeared in DAM News, Bloomsbury's History of Emotions Series, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, First Monday, Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, and Journal of Digital Asset Management. Her stories and prose as part of interactive designs have appeared in Toronto Metropolitan University's Interactive Film and Media Conference and as indie video games on the world's largest indie game platform, itch.io.
Dr. kYmberly Keeton
Dr. kYmberly Mieshia Dionn Keeton (Ph.D. in Information Science, Interdisciplinary Studies) is a published writer, art librarian, Black scholar, historian, archivist, genealogy curator, and visionary founder of “ART | Library Deco”–a virtual African American research art library, gallery, and repository. Her work and research focuses on the analysis of Black Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (BGLAM) and she has received funding from the Institute of Human Studies, the Pratt University DPOE network, and the New England Archivist Society. As a curator and consultant she has led several community archival projects, such as the publication “The Black COVID-19 INDEX,” the “Texas Black Artists Collective Web Archiving Project,” and organizing the “Growing Your Roots 2020, Inaugural African American Genealogy Conference” in Austin, Texas, USA.
