Shelly Black (she/her) is a Japanese Mexican American archivist living on the traditional homelands of the Tiwa people. She is currently the Digital Archivist in the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections at the University of New Mexico. She is committed to critically examining biases embedded in technologies and archival practices, and advancing representation of historically-excluded communities through the use of culturally-responsive tools and systems.

Shelly was selected as a 2020 ALA Emerging Leader, is the recipient of the 2021 SAA Brenda S. Banks Award, and was a 2022 participant in the Minnesota Institute for Early Career Librarians. She served on the BitCurator Consortium Executive Council 2023-2026 and chaired the SAA Archivists & Archives of Color Section Steering Committee 2021-2023.

Before digital archiving, Shelly spent 10 years doing photography, graphic design, and marketing and communications for libraries, art galleries, and creative professionals. She holds a BFA in photography and an MLIS from the University of Arizona where she was a Knowledge River scholar.