CLS Faculty member Almita Miranda won the 2025 “Nuevas Direcciones” award from the Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists for her work with the ¡Presente! project, which brings UW-Madison researchers and community archivists together with Wisconsin Historical Society through the Wisconsin Latinx History Collective. With support from the National Historic Publications and Records Commission, Prof. Miranda and her co-PIs are creating a bilingual digital edition featuring oral interviews, primary sources, and scholarly essays on diverse Latinx communities in Wisconsin, in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical society. With these documents, the digital edition will highlight the contributions and everyday life of Latinx residents in rural and urban regions of the state. Rooted in the public historical principle of shared authority, ¡Presente! invites faculty, students, and community researchers to share in the interpretative and meaning-making process of understanding the past. The result will be a searchable, open-access repository holding as many as 3,000 primary sources on Latinx communities sorted through thematic sections, including migration, labor, education, politics and activism, arts and media, and community life. Almita Miranda is Assistant Professor of Geography and Chicanx/e and Latinx/e Studies.