Annika Berry

UCAAN Graduate Researcher & Archivist

Annika is a PhD candidate in UCSC's Creative/Critical Literature program, where she also teaches courses in Prose/Fiction, Poetry, and creative approaches to archival research. Originally from Portland, Oregon, they moved to Santa Cruz in 2021 to complete an MFA in Environmental Art & Social Practice (also at UCSC), and previously hold a BFA in Film, Animation & Video from the Rhode Island School of Design.

Annika's creative work combines archival research, oral history, and experimental biography/fiction. She has exhibited at SITE Santa Fe, MoCA Arlington, and Olympia Gallery in New York. In 2024-2025, Annika was a Fellow at UCSC's Center for Archival Research & Training (CART), where they processed the papers and digital files of Professor Emerita Donna J. Haraway.