Meet the Local Contexts Team

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Brandon Castle

Chair, Library Working Group

Brandon Castle is an enrolled member of the Ketchikan Indian Community and is descendant of the Tsimshian People. He is a librarian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he supports Native American & Indigenous Studies research and programs through tools such as Local Contexts Notices, increasing community engagement and access to collections, and promoting Indigenous knowledge systems as a vital part of academic research.