Hilary Seeley (she/her) is an oral historian, artist, and scholar living on Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). She earned her MA in Oral History from Columbia University and received her BA from UC Berkeley in Interdisciplinary Studies — a self-designed major examining expressive culture in the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to being a designer, costumer, educator, and dancer, she has been collaborating with elders for nearly 20 years to record their oral histories. Much of her past work has engaged material culture to unlock gateways to memory and establish comfortable spaces, and her recent work expands approaches to and methods for memory work. Her master’s thesis project, "Heirlooming: Rethinking Memory and Relationality through Embodiment and Collapsed Time,” proposes a decolonial, inclusive intervention into the standard scholarly practice of oral history and invites others to invest in slow, deep, connective memory work and creative practices. She was the oral history fellow on the Carnegie Corporation Oral History Project at the Columbia Center for Oral History Research, an oral historian for the Voices of Lefferts “Whose Streets? Our Streets! Remain, Reclaim, Rebuild” Oral History Project, and is currently working on the Movements Against Mass Incarceration oral history project at Incite Institute.