Adriana Sisko is an ABD doctoral candidate in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Kentucky. Currently, they are the Project Director of The Country: Remembering Lexington's First Lesbian Bar, a 12-month intensive oral history project that focuses on collecting the oral histories of queer women and their experiences at The Country, a lesbian bar that opened in Lexington, Kentucky during 1978. Their past experience in social memory and LGBTQIA history includes conducting 50+ interviews for the OutSouth: LGBTQ+ Oral History Project, a venture created by the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and UK's Office of LGBTQ* Resources to document the lives of LGBTQ-identified individuals in the South, and acting as the Data Chair for the queer history mobile app Quist. They have taught as the instructor of record in Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky and in History at Colorado College.