Samip Mallick is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA), a Philadelphia-based national non-profit organization that documents, preserves, and share stories from the South Asian American community. Mallick has led SAADA from its inception in 2008 as an entirely volunteer-run organization with a budget of a few hundred dollars to its current role as a national leader in community storytelling. SAADA’s innovative approach has been recognized with awards from the Society of American Archivists and the American Historical Association, and grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others. The organization’s work has also been highlighted by The New York Times, The Atlantic, NPR, and other national and international media. Working at the intersection of technology and storytelling, Mallick has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences from the University of Illinois. He was previously the Director of the Ranganathan Center for Digital Information at the University of Chicago Library. Mallick also previously served on the Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Commission on Asian Pacific American Affairs, and the advisory boards for Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois - Chicago and the University of Minnesota Immigration History Research Center's "Immigrant Voices" Project.