Kimberly Toney

Coordinating Curator of Native American and Indigenous Collections, Brown University
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Kimberly Toney is an enrolled member of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc and is the Inaugural Coordinating Curator of Native American and Indigenous Collections, jointly appointed to the John Carter Brown and John Hay Libraries at Brown University. Kim has worked in special collections libraries for more than 15 years, including as Head of Readers’ Services and Director of Indigenous Initiatives at the American Antiquarian Society on Nipmuc homelands in Worcester, Massachusetts. Kim is Co-Chair of the newly formed Nipmuc Community Land Project, and regularly serves as a consultant to cultural heritage institutions across southern New England. Her own research and personal interests include language and cultural reclamation, the intersections of Black and Indigenous histories in the Northeast, connecting Indigenous knowledges and practices to scholarly endeavors, and land back.