Archie Motley Archival Internship Program

The Women and Leadership Archives, as part of Loyola University Chicago, is a member of the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC). As such, the WLA has applied for and received summer interns as part of the Archie Motley Archival Internship Program (AMAIP).

2024 Project

Khalia Mullin is a junior at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she has a double major in political science and African American Studies. Khalia is working on metadata for audiovisual materials in the Carol Moseley Braun Papers.

2017 Project

AMAIP intern Megan Naylor, an undergraduate student at the University of Chicago, and  former BMRC fellow, Dr. Melanie Chambliss, began processing the Carol Moseley Braun Collection. Learn more about the project and program: "Students, scholars explore African-American archives in Chicago libraries" (UChicago News)

And read about their experience on the WLA blog:

Summer in the Archives: Processing the Carol Mosely Braun Collection

Getting the Record(s) Right

Going away party for AMAIP intern Megan Naylor in Piper Hall, September 8, 2017. Pictured L-R: Nancy Freeman, WLA Director; Steve Adams, BMRC Board Chair; Megan Naylor; Ambassador Carol Moseley Braun; Melanie Chambliss, BMRC Special Project Intern; Anita Mechler, BMRC Project Manager/Archivist; and Andrea Jackson, BMRC Executive Director.