SOHA Board of Directors 2025-2026

We welcome you to get to know the SOHA officers navigating uncharted territories, developing their own oral history projects, and serving their communities and the next generation in various ways!

Daisy Robles Herrera, President

Email: dherr004@ucr.edu

Daisy R. Herrera is a PhD student and public historian in the Public History program at the University of California, Riverside.. Her research focuses on Los Angeles’ San Fernando Valley in the 20 th century with emphasis on transnational efforts of relational racemaking, labor, and solidarity to explore why this area is now home to the largest Latinx population in the LA County. She is currently working with the City of Los Angeles’ HistoricPlaces LA Revealed project focusing on locating and marking sites of Chicanx/Latinx historic importance in the region, including the former Pico Court citrus work camp which was the basis of her public history master’s thesis. You can often find her in other oral/public history spaces like the Oral History Association and the Western History Association (both which will be in Portland, Oregon in October of 2026!).

Gabriela Corona-Valencia, 1st Vice President 

Gabriela G. Corona Valencia received her Ph.D. in Education (Social Science Comparative Education), with a specialization in race, ethnic, and cultural studies, from the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies. Her scholarship traces how histories of medicine and public health shape educational legislation, infrastructure, and everyday schooling, situating these processes within broader struggles over reproductive justice and community and civic engagement. In addition to her faculty role, she serves as Vice President of the Southwest Oral History Association, overseeing programming that supports ethical, community-engaged oral history practice across the region. She also contributes research expertise to the California Rural Ed Network, where her work centers the cultural wealth of K-12 school communities in rural counties.

Julia Kay Torres, 2nd Vice President 

Julia Torres is the current 2nd Vice President of the Southwest Oral History Association. She is a PhD Candidate in History at the University of California, Riverside. Her dissertation, Legalizing White Supremacy in the Central Valley of California, 1850-1948, shows how race-based laws worked together in order to create a society of exclusion as the United States was growing rapidly. The focus of her dissertation is how anti-miscegenation laws collaborated and were supported by laws including the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Immigration Act of 1924, and segregation.

–—Ryan Morini, Treasurer—

Katie Singer, Secretary

Katie Singer has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Rutgers University-Newark and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Singer taught at Bard High School Early College in Newark, and then as faculty at Rutgers University-Newark in the departments of history, Africana/African-American Studies and American studies. She relocated to California in 2020 where she is presently teaching writing and boxing while working on her next book project about the Great Migration in the LA area. Her book, Alien Soil: Oral Histories of Great Migration Newark was published in August of 2024 by Rutgers University Press. She has also co-authored the memoir of a previously incarcerated writer, Maurice Tyree, entitled The Darkest Parts of My Blackness: A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution with Lived Places Publishing, also out in August.

Joyce Marshall-Moore, Historian

Joyce Moore is an Archivist at UNLV University Libraries and a long-time SOHA leader and member of the Board of Directors. She is an experienced oral historian who has developed and contributed to various projects, which are connected to Las Vegas. She has served as SOHA’s Historian since 2015.

Annie Duval, California Representative

Annie Duval currently serves as the Director of Del Mar Voices, the Del Mar Historical Society’s (DMHS) oral history project. During her 20-year membership in the DMHS, she has conducted numerous oral history interviews of former mayors, community leaders, and old timers. In her current work with Viewing Voices, she has conducted oral history interviews with key founding professors at California State University, Northridge, and professors at San Diego State University. She has presented at multiple SOHA annual conferences, and was a co-recipient of the 2015 SOHA award for organizing the SOHA Annual Conference in Del Mar, California. Annie is a lifetime SOHA member.

Tim Campbell, California Representative

My name is Tim Campbell, and I currently call Southern California Home. I have an MA in History from the University of Kentucky but have spent the last few years transitioning those skills into Public History, which has quickly become my passion. My love of oral histories stems from my goal of sharing educational, entertaining, and accessible materials that otherwise would have been written off or oversimplified. Further, oral history has been the key to me providing nuance to military history topics that were once considered overdone and will be a large part of how I differentiate my work from others in the future.

In addition to being an aspiring filmmaker, writer, museologist…. I work at the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, and a children’s discovery center recently opened in Rancho Cucamonga. If I’m not at work, you will probably find me watching old movies and tv or outside enjoying the sun.

—Annie Delgado, Nevada Representative—

Kimberly Selinske, Nevada Representative

Kimberly Selinske (she/her) is the park Historian for Death Valley National Park, which is located in California and Nevada. Kim regularly conducts oral histories and oral history internships as part of her job and is slowly working through the backlog of oral histories in the park’s museum collection. Kim earned her M.A. in Public History from Colorado State University, where she was first introduced to the field and methodologies of oral history. Since then, Kim has become an advocate for oral histories to both preserve our histories and to guide our decisions moving forward. This is particularly useful in her current position at Death Valley National Park, as oral histories are helping recover information about sites throughout the park, as well as documenting the history of park management to help guide future decisions and management plans.

SOHA has always been the most welcoming organization and Kim sincerely looks forward to helping support members through building and sustaining networks within Nevada and between the Southwestern states. There are many oral historians in Nevada that are doing great work and I hope to learn from our colleagues to develop oral history work in the federal government.

In her free time, Kim coaches a high school government team (We the People, The Citizen and the Constitution program) and spends time at her home in North Las Vegas with her “bark ranger” Daisy.

Midge Dellinger, Native American Representative

Midge Dellinger lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she is a citizen and oral historian for the Muscogee Nation. She is currently re-instituting the practice of oral history in the Muscogee Nation, as she works to build an oral history program for Mvskoke peoples. She has been a member of SOHA since 2017, when she attended her first SOHA conference as a first-year graduate student at Northeastern State University. From 2017 to 2019, she served on the Board of Directors as the SOHA Student Representative. Since 2017, she has participated in panel presentations at SOHA’s annual conference, speaking on topics that involve oral history and Indigenous peoples. In recent years, she has received the Eva Tulene Watt Scholarship and a SOHA Mini-Grant. 

Edwin Rivera Castellanos, Student Representative

Edwin Rivera Castellanos is a Ph.D. student in Higher Education Administration and Policy at the University of California, Riverside, and a Research & Writing Fellow at the African American Policy Forum (AAPF). Edwin studied Sociology at UCLA, where his interest in the interplay between urban evolution, educational disparities, and racial dynamics deepened.

At AAPF, Edwin focuses on analyzing the complex challenges and structural inequalities that disproportionately affect African American and other marginalized communities. This work supports efforts towards more equitable educational policies and practices. Simultaneously, Edwin is involved with the Southwest Oral History Association (SOHA), using oral history methods to explore and preserve the experiences of communities in Southern California like Lennox. These narratives reflect the local impacts of broader socio-economic changes and are crucial for understanding regional educational transformations.

Edwin’s research strives to shed light on the ways race, class, and geography intersect to influence educational access and quality. His own journey from community college to UC Riverside has given him unique insights into the barriers faced by underrepresented groups, driving his dedication to enhancing educational equity.

Summer Cherland, Past President

Dr. Summer Cherland is an author, speaker, and educator. She researches, writes, and teaches about the historical significance of race and social justice in public and higher education, particularly in the urban Southwest. Her publications and presentations include investigations into the Chicano Movement, Civil Rights organizing, and leadership in the era of segregation. Dr. Cherland is also an expert on the scholarship of teaching and learning, faculty training, and the benefits of higher education to historically under-served populations. Dr. Cherland is a faculty member at South Mountain Community College, where she teaches American, African-American, and Chicano history. She served as the Second Vice President of SOHA, 2019-2021 and as the President of SOHA, 2023-2024.

Anti-Racism Committee

Dalena Sanderson-Hunter

Ryan Morini

Farina King