Meral Agish

Meral Agish joined Queens Public Library in December 2019 and now serves as the Queens Memory Project Coordinator, working closely with volunteers, partner organizations, and library colleagues on community-led archiving and oral history projects that reflect the diversity of Queens. An oral historian with more than 20 years of experience, she oversees the library’s growing collection of 1,300 interviews and works to add new voices and stories to Queens Public Library’s Digital Archives. Meral was born and raised in Queens, in an immigrant family that has called the borough home since arriving in the U.S. in the 1960s and ‘70s.