Local Contexts
Amy June Breesman currently serves as Help Desk Lead at Local Contexts and has been engaged with Good Way Farm as Farmer and Founder since March 2021, focusing on food sovereignty and education in Northeast Kansas. Prior experience includes roles such as Land Relations Specialist at The Land Institute, Historic Preservationist at Fairmount Park Conservancy, and Farm Manager at Appel Farm Arts & Music Campus. Breesman has also worked as Assistant Manager at Pork & Greens Farm and held various positions in agricultural and healthcare settings, including Patient Advocate at Philadelphia Women's Center and Livestock Apprentice at Carversville Farm Foundation. Breesman earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at The George Washington University.
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Local Contexts
Every Indigenous community has cultural and biological collections and data within national archives, libraries, museums and other public and private repositories that they do not own, do not control, and cannot govern circulation over. Significant information about these collections, including individual and community names and proper provenance information is absent. Issues of responsibility, ownership, as well as the incomplete and/or significant mistakes in the metadata extend to every other knowledge asset or digital record building upon this information. The Local Contexts project was developed in 2010 and grew from the needs of Indigenous and local organizations who wanted a practical method to deal with the range of intellectual cultural property issues that arise in relation to managing cultural heritage materials, Indigenous knowledge and Indigenous data. Local Contexts offers a robust system of digital labelling to intervene in the structural and ongoing colonial digital legacy of Indigenous erasure. The Traditional Knowledge (TK) and Biocultural (BC) Labels and Notices work to enhance and legitimize locally based decision-making and Indigenous governance frameworks for determining ownership, access, and culturally appropriate conditions for sharing historical, contemporary, and future collections of cultural heritage and Indigenous data.