Selina Portera, Information Studies
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Selina Portera is a second-year MLIS student in the Department of Information Studies. She received her BA in Anthropology at UCLA via Moorpark College where she focused on Indigenous peoples, evolution, and artifacts. Her interests include: equitable information access for marginalized communities, archiving her family’s Purépecha rituals, and Xicanisma.

CFPRT Scholar, Selina Portera, curated the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT) 2019 Scholars Exhibit Showcase. She describes her experience in the following blogpost:

Collections and Sources:

• Buddhist Church of America Records (Collection LSC-2364). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Eiko Ishioka Papers (Collection LSC.228). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Inesita Papers (Collection LSC.902). UCLA Library Special Collections. Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Japanese American Research Project (Collection LSC.2010). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Jonathan Fielding Papers (new acquisition, finding aid in progress). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel Records (Collection LSC.2340). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

CFPRT Students who processed these collections featured in the exhibit case:

• Max Daniel, History: Sephardic Temple Tifereth Israel Records
• Mario Gallardo, Information Studies & Alex Nguyen, Public Health and Asian American Studies: Jonathan Fielding Papers
• Krystell Jimenez, Information Studies: Buddhist Churches of America Records
• Joanna Smith, Information Studies: Born-digital materials from the Eiko Ishioka Papers
• Carolina Meneses, Information Studies: Inesita Papers
• Rishi Guné, Asian American Studies (Redescription Scholar): Japanese American Research Project
• Cierra Ott, Musicology: Theodore Bikel Papers