About

Dr. Ramona La Roche

Ramona La Roche, Ph.D.

Cultural Heritage Informaticist in USA and Caribbean

I am a Cultural Heritage Informaticist at Gullah Galz Ink; GLAMRs currently living in southeastern USA and Caribbean. My work ranges from Critical Librarianship, Community Archives, and Special Collections, to Bajan & Gullah immersion, Global Arts, and technology literacy. I am also actively involved in Creative Placemaking.

You can click the button above to attend my YouTube events and subscirbe. If you’d like to get in touch, feel free to say hello through any of the social links below.

  • Work
    • Gullah Galz Ink/GLAMRs; AARLCC
  • Education
    • University of South Carolina
    • Columbia College SC
    • Antioch University
    • School of Visual Arts

Our Work

Dr. La Roche works with galleries, libraries, archives, museums, repositories (GLAMRs), and Digital Humanities. The DH projects utilize Virtual and Augmented Reality platform and support related app designing. Focusing on South Carolina Gullah, Florida, Caribbean, and African diasporic historical and family research, content development, digital literacy, virtual, face to face instruction, and in-services. She is a cutural hertiage librarian and divergent education specialist providing cultural heritage services, diversity training, and special events.

Specialties

  • Cultural Heritage Informatics
  • Digital Humanities
  • Information Technology and Literacy
  • Community Archives
  • Divergent Learning programs
  • STEAM and Arts Integration Education
  • Gullah Geechee historical genealogy research, related tourism, audio and visual documentaries
  • Cultural, artistic and holistic tours and retreats.

Established programs:

  • Graves Matter: Sacred Burial Grounds (annual Black History program (AARLCC)
  • Gullah Geechee archival collections and related programs (SC & FL).
  • South Florida – Implemented 1st ever LGBTQ event at the African American Research Library in Ft. Lauderdale to commemorate Stonewall 50th year anniversary (2019) at the AARLCC and related archival collection.

Our Gallery