Charu Sharma
Charu Sharma is a former student at Western University (Canada). She was enrolled in the Faculty of Information and Media Studies for 3 years. She recently completed a second-entry professional undergraduate program at the University of Toronto (Canada) as a Bachelor of Information student and is now pursuing graduate studies. In the summer of 2020, she worked as a research assistant as part of Western’s Undergraduate Summer Research Internship (USRI) program, conducting archival research on the Salvadoran Civil War. Through this internship experience, as well as her previous field study in El Salvador, in a course led by Amanda Grzyb, Sharma’s passion and interest in archival studies and community activism has grown.