Biography
Laurisa Sastoque (she/her) is a Digital Preservation Training Officer in the Digital Humanities Team, working towards the launch of the Digital Preservation Southampton enterprise unit that seeks to provide digital preservation guidance to clients. Prior to joining the team, Laurisa received an MPhil in Digital Humanities at the University of Cambridge where her dissertation work was comprised of a digital mapping project on the subject of the Colombian diaspora in the United States and the United Kingdom and the drug trade. Laurisa is originally from Bogotá, Colombia, and has also lived in Evanston, Illinois, where she completed her undergraduate degree in History, Creative Writing, and Data Science (Minor) from Northwestern University. In her spare time, Laurisa enjoys travelling, hanging out at coffee shops, and fantasizing about the dog she will (one day) adopt.