LBDP Guest Hour: Indigenous Peoples App with Nicholas Brown and Maribel Rodriguez

Guide to Indigenous Maryland is a multi-faceted community engagement initiative of the Maryland State Library Agency and Maryland’s public libraries. Through the development and curation of educational resources, the project aims to teach Marylanders about the history of local Native and Indigenous peoples and how their heritage influences contemporary life in Maryland. Content for the app and website are based on crowdsourced contributions and recommendations from individual Native and Indigenous Marylanders, as well as tribal nations heritage organizations, in collaboration with Maryland’s public libraries and the project curator Dr. Elizabeth Rule, Assistant Professor, American University. Nicholas Alexander Brown is a Honduran-American library executive and musician based in Maryland, where he currently serves as Acting Co-CEO and Chief Operating Officer for Communication and Outreach at the Prince George's County Memorial Library System. Maribel Rodriguez grew up in New York City as the daughter of an immigrant parent from Colombia and of an American parent from Puerto Rico (Taino ancestry). She studied photography as an undergraduate at The Rochester Institute of Technology, then went on to study social enterprise at American University for her master’s.