Angela Labrador
Associate Program Director Senior Lecturer
Barre Town, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolAngela Labrador is an anthropologist and educator who blends archaeology, IT, and participatory action research to advance policies and digital tools that safeguard living heritage and working landscapes. As Associate Program Director and Senior Lecturer at Johns Hopkins and managing partner of Coherit Associates, she designs capacity-building programs, teacher training, and inventory systems used by governments, NGOs, and UNESCO. Her work spans scholarship and practice—from co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Method and Theory to contributing to Arches, an open-source geospatial cultural heritage platform, where she enhanced report management features. Labrador is known for promoting emic, accessibility-focused approaches to heritage ethics, influencing model legislation, repatriation inventories under NAGPRA, and standards for sustainable heritage management. Based in Vermont, she pairs academic rigor (PhD, UMass Amherst) with hands-on local stewardship, serving on international committees and multiple nonprofit boards.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at Bard College at Simon's RockUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (3)
django10
command-line-interface10
python10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
archesproject/arches
Jul 2021 - Nov 2021
Arches is a web platform for creating, managing, & visualizing geospatial data. Arches was inspired by the needs of the Cultural Heritage community, particularly the widespread need of organizations to build & manage cultural heritage inventories
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Angela contributed to the `arches` project by implementing features related to report management. Their commits included adding functionalities for registering, listing, updating, and unregistering report templates using the Django framework. These modifications involved modifying the `report.py` file within the `arches/management/commands` directory, showcasing their focus on enhancing the command-line interface and core application logic. Furthermore, the user updated the version number in the project's initialization file.
pythondjangocultural-heritageweb-apparcheology
coherit/cidoc4arches
Sep 2021 - Mar 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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