Judith Opoku-Boateng

Judith Opoku-Boateng is the Archivist in charge of the J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She holds formal qualifications in Sociology and Archival Studies from the University of Ghana, as well as specialized certificates in Audiovisual Heritage Preservation (AHP).  Preceding her current position, Judith engaged with the International Centre for African Music and Dance (ICAMD) as an ethnographic researcher documenting music and dance forms from indigenous communities in Ghana. She won the Jim Linder Grant for Cultural Heritage Preservation in 2011 and became a US State Alumni (IVLP 2011) in the same year and served as a private consultant for the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) from October 2015 to February 2017, as well as a resource person for ICCROM’s SOIMA programme in July 2017. She is the current Chair of the Diversity Task Force of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), as well as its ambassador for Ghana and West Africa. Additionally, she serves on the Research Archives and Programme Committees of IASA.