This project was conducted as part of the 675 (Community Engaged Scholarship) class during Fall 2024. In my Community engaged e-Portfolio (CE-EP), I worked with Heritage Werks in Duluth, Georgia and their community engagement activities in BIPOC and underserved groups in Atlanta, Georgia, and the global archival community.

In my Community Engagement e-Portfolio (CE-eP) I analyze existing communication, information, and preservation offerings of Heritage Werks (HW) for various underserved groups (i.e., BIPOC communities, civil rights activists, and visual and performing artists and companies) within the Atlanta community, but also across the larger archival industry. By identifying existing and potential collaborators and partners in local, regional, national, and international communities in the physical setting and online I facilitate actual and/or planned activities of mutual interest to the company and the community.

Heritage Werks is a for-profit corporate preservation company located in Duluth, Georgia about 30 miles north of Atlanta.  The company was founded in 2009 by Kier Walton, a brand and marketing specialists.  Walton, the CEO of the company was a former employee of History Factory, another archiving company that has a similar model. Today, HW specializes in servicing DOW 30 and Fortune 500 companies, major technology.  Each contract is fully customizable and dependent on the clients’ needs and budget.  

A systematic bibliography of community-engagement initiatives and web-related resources for the population of interest in a similar disciplinary of the work.

A glimpse of promising practices within other case studies that have community-engaged collaborations and partnerships to support offerings to the same diverse population of this project.

Assessment and feedback collected based on the community-engaged collaborations and partnerships of my “home agency” to support the services for the population(s) of focus.

A brief discussion of the impacts and outcomes achieved as a result of this community-based project.