Judith Opoku-Boateng is the Archivist overseeing the J. H. Kwabena Nketia Archives at the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana. She holds academic qualifications in Sociology and Archival Studies from the University of Ghana, along with specialized training in Audiovisual Heritage Preservation (AHP). Before assuming her current role, she worked with the International Centre for African Music and Dance (ICAMD) as an ethnographic researcher, documenting music and dance traditions from indigenous communities across Ghana. 

Judith received the Jim Linder Grant for Cultural Heritage Preservation in 2011 and participated in the U.S. Department of State’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) that same year. She has presented at numerous conferences, symposia, and workshops on audiovisual heritage preservation both locally and internationally. From 2015 to 2017, she served as a private consultant for the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), and in July 2017, she was a resource person for ICCROM’s SOIMA programme. 

She is the current Chair of the Diversity Task Force of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), as well as IASA’s ambassador for Ghana and West Africa. She also serves on the association’s Research Archives and Programme Committees. In addition, Judith is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), part of the AV Think Tank—an initiative of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision—and a Technical Committee Member for SOIMA (an ICCROM initiative). 

Judith has published widely and delivered multiple training programmes in audiovisual heritage preservation. Most recently, she has been active in archival advocacy, championing the preservation of audiovisual materials for current and future generations, especially within her region.