XAVI DANTO

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xavi danto (they/them) is a writer and archivist in metro detroit.

EDUCATION

2023 - 2025 MS Library and Information Studies, Advanced Certificate: Archives, Pratt Institute
2017 - 2020 BA Visual and Critical Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

CURRENTLY

2026 + Associate Archivist, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

FORMERLY

2025 Graduate Assistant: Archives, Pratt Institute Library
2024 - 2025 Archives Consultant / Operations and Programs Associate, Blank Forms
2024 Graduate Assistant: Material Lab, Pratt Institute
2024 Preservation Intern, Rhizome
2024 Archives Intern, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
2023 - 2024 Assistant Image Archivist, Paula Cooper Gallery
2022 Research and Collections Assistant, Museum of Sex
2021 - 2022 Bookseller, Artbook @ MoMA PS1
2021 Archives Intern, White Columns
2020 - 2021 Editorial Fellow, Wendy’s Subway
2020 - 2021 Operations Assistant, 3 Hole Press
2019 - 2020 Teaching Assistant: Contemporary Practices, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2019 Performing Archivist, Chicago Cultural Center
2017 - 2018 Research Intern, Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago

VOLUNTEER

2024 - 2025 Interference Archive
2024 NYPL Jail and Prison Services
2016 - 2017 Black Cinema House at the Stony Island Arts Bank
2014 - 2016 The Aquadome

HONORS & LEADERSHIP

2024 + Member at Large, ACRL/NY
2024 - 2025 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Student Representative, Pratt Institute
2024 Graduate Student Engagement Fund: Grant Recipient, Pratt Institute

CONFERENCES

2025 Presenter Liaison, ACRL/NY Symposium
2024 Lightning Talk: Shape Expressions for Rhizome’s ArtBase, LD4 Conference: Building Community for Linked Open Data
2024 Lightning Talk: Sex Archives and Linked Open Data, Gender and Sexuality in Information Science Colloqiuim

PUBLIC PROGRAMS

2021 Co-Organizer, Gregg Bordowitz & Fred Moten in Conversation, Artbook @ MoMA PS1 X Triple Canopy
2021 Moderator, Michael Stipe & JR in Conversation, Artbook @ MoMA PS1
2021 Video Editor, Light Shows for Ben Krusling’s Glaring (2020), Wendy’s Subway X Triple Canopy

PUBLISHING

2021 Assistant Editor, Carmelina: Figures by Ronaldo V. Wilson
2021 Assistant Editor, Return to Field eds. by Martha Tuttle and Gabriel Kruis
2021 Editorial Support, Tender Noted by Shala Miller
2021 Editorial Support, The Clearing by JJJJJerome Ellis
2019 Oral History Participant, StoryCorps OutLoud
2019 Contributing Writer, The SEEN
2019 Contributing Writer, Chicago Artists Writers