Catherine Kennedy is the Director of the South African History Archive (SAHA), a human rights archive based in Johannesburg. Catherine holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and, over the past fifteen years, has worked in the South African book trade, developed accessible online library services and information literacy training within universities in the UK, and promoted libraries to support teaching and learning in Zanzibar. Her professional interests revolve around the development of inclusive information services to promote and defend human rights and to foster participatory democracy.