Sakyra Abbitt holds a B.A. in Media Studies and an M.A. in Media, Culture, and Technology from the University of Virginia, in which her research explored the intersections between Black women’s social positioning and their representations on reality television. She plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Media Studies with a focus on Black digital memory work. In the interim, she continues to build her expertise in digital archiving and memory practices, centering marginalized communities. Sakyra is a research assistant for Archiving the Black Web, where she works to complete ‘#BlackBookTok: Made by Black Readers for Black Readers,’ a project that highlights Black women’s roles in shaping digital literary discourse. She also serves as the 2025–2026 Digital Archives and Communications Fellow for the National Women’s History Museum, in which she oversees NWHM's Chronicles of American Women initiative, which seeks to solicit, share, and archive short public biographies of contemporary American women in advance of the semiquincentennial.