Collaborators
Chronicling Care Oral History Project is a collaboration with Clean Air Club. Our project builds on the COVID-safer organizing, performing arts, and work spaces cultivated by CAC across Chicago. Similarly to how CAC has provided models and resources for clean air organizations across the country, we aim to create an infrastructure that can be replicated and revised to support oral history, storytelling, and other memory work beyond Chicago.
Co-Organizers
Mila Kaut
Mila (she/they) is a historian and educator. Her work centers around two imperatives: deconstructing the stories that anesthetize our reactions to quotidian as well as systemic violence, and using historical inquiry to build the collective will and solidarities necessary to reckon with injustice. Mila is currently writing a dissertation on the relationship between public memory and settler statebuilding in the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. They have stewarded cultural and historical initiatives through organizations including the Newberry Library, Calumet Collaborative, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Sarah Stark
Sarah (they/she) is a journalist, podcast producer, and fact checker. They have worked with publications and organizations including SELF Magazine, Chicago’s NPR station WBEZ, the Poynter Institute, The Cut, and Chicago Documenters. Sarah’s work as a reporter and producer is grounded in building meaningful relationships with and in marginalized communities, rather than extracting from those communities to produce content. They have several areas of focus, including COVID-19, public health, anti-fat bias and fat liberation, LGBTQ+ media, and sex and relationships.