Elizabeth K.Batiuk

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In Guanabacoa, Cuba at the Wemileres Festival in 2008.

Elizabeth K. Batiuk is an ethnomusicologist (University of Michigan, 2015) currently pursuing a master's degree in information science (MSI) at the University of Michigan School of Information. She specializes in the music and dance of Cuba and Latin America and ethnographic research methods. She is pivoting her career from teaching to work in the cultural heritage sector as an archivist. Elizabeth is interested in the ethics of information and how digital technology impacts public memory. Before graduate school, Elizabeth worked in the non-profit sector on a humanitarian aid project that sent pianos and piano technicians to music schools in Cuba and as a pro se tenant advocate in New York City housing court. She also plays guitar and percussion.