07/29/2025
We are thrilled to welcome Samira Ali to the Soomaal House of Art family as our Assistant Archivist🎉 At Soomaal House Library & Archives Center, she will be overseeing cataloging, metadata creation, digital preservation and more.
Samira is a public historian, community organizer, and culture worker with a background in archival research, community based preservation, and exhibition development. Her work focuses on how working class Black communities mobilize for material change and how those efforts are remembered, preserved, and made accessible through public history. She brings hands on experience, having served as Collections Manager and Tour Guide at the Somali Museum of Minnesota, as well as a 3D Objects Collections Curatorial Affairs Intern at the Minnesota Historical Society. Through storytelling, archival practice, policy advocacy, and community engagement, Samira is committed to the preservation of Somali history and engaging with Somali material culture as a process of collective memory-building and healing.
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Soomaal House Library & Archives Center supports the growing community of Somali artists in Minnesota and beyond. The Center’s mission is to preserve artworks, exhibit materials, texts, and personal archives of artists, art organizers, organizations, educators, and professionals involved with contemporary Somali art. The Center aims to make these archives accessible to community stakeholders and the public to expand discourse on Somali art, history, and people.
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