This abstract discusses my doctoral research at the Harvard Design School. The focus of my research is the creation of an active, living archive as a digital place for communities that have been neglected as a function of traditional dynamics of the digital divide. This research is focused around a set of Kumeyaay Native American communities based in the San Diego region of Southern California. I discuss the mechanism of collecting, structuring, and disseminating video, audio, and image-based narratives and artifacts that are submitted by community members. In particular, I discuss my hypothesis that an intelligently designed web infrastructure that employs a proactive agent can provide communities with the ability to archive cultural information, expand their social networks, and engage in important processes of communication that may be currently lacking as a result of existing dynamics. My contribution lies in the creation of an active and sustainable archive of contemporary and historical Kumeyaay culture that can be co-designed by these communities.