Holly Hobbs is a public sector ethnomusicologist currently working in conjunction with Tulane University in New Orleans to design and launch a digital archive of post-Katrina hiphop music and oral history, while also serving as an archivist for the popular public radio show American Routes. Hobbs has conducted extensive fieldwork on folk songs and folklife throughout East Africa, Ireland, and the American South, and her interests in musical activism, documentary film, and digital media literacy have led to fascinating work with the Patois International Human Rights Film Festival, The KnowLA Project, and many other projects.