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Senior Leadership

Gabrielle Foreman

CBDR Co-Director

Co-Founder and Co-Director, Colored Conventions Project

Shirley Moody-Turner

CBDR Co-Director

Founder, Black Women's Organizing Archive

Jim Casey

Associate Director

Co-Founder and Co-Director, Colored Conventions Project

Co-Founder and Co-Director, Douglass Day

Lauren Cooper

Managing Director and Digital Scholarship Librarian

Denise Burgher

Director, Community and Curricular Engagement, CCP and Douglass Day (2017-present)

2017-present

PhD student in English, Univ. of Delaware

Summer Hamilton

Digital Projects Developer and Assistant Research Professor of Digital Scholarship, Penn State University

Administration

Sergio Carmona

Budget and Finance Coordinator

Gabrielle Sutherland

Event and Communications Administrator, Project Management

Graduate Research Leaders

Taylor Abrams-Rollinson

CBDR Satellite Researcher (23-24)

Ph.D. student, Department of Communication and Film, University of Memphis

Pheolyn Allen

#DigBlk Scholar (2021-2024)

Masters candidate in English, Penn State University

Kenneth Avery, Jr.

CBDR Satellite Researcher (23-24)

Ph.D. student, Department of Communication and Film, University of Memphis

Lauren Barnes

#DigBlk Scholar (2021-2024)

Dual Title Ph.D. in English and African American and Diaspora Studies, Penn State University

Keon Burns

#DigBlk Scholar (2023-2024, 2021-2022)

Dual title PhD candidate in US History and African American Studies, Penn State University

Jennifer L. Carner

CBDR Satellite Researcher (23-24)

PhD student, African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric, Christian Theological Seminary

Kesla Elmore

#DigBlk Scholar (2021-2024)

Ph.D. student in English, Penn State University

Rachel Fernandes

JT Mellon Visiting Scholar (2023-2024); Visiting Graduate Student in Digital Archives (2020-2023)

PhD candidate in English Language and Literatures, Queen’s University

Christopher D. Harris

CBDR Satellite Researcher (23-24)

Ph.D. student, Department of Communication and Film, University of Memphis

Brandi Locke

Graduate Researcher; Co-chair, CCP Digital Archives; Mural Arts Project Manager

PhD candidate in English, Univ. of Delaware

Yolanda Mackey

#DigBlk Scholar (2022-2024)

Dual Title PhD Student in English and African American and Diaspora Studies, Penn State University

Wendyliz Martinez

#DigBlk Scholar (2023-2024); Graduate Admin Assistant (2022-2023)

PhD Student, English and African American Studies, Penn State University

Eden Mekonen

#DigBlk Scholar (2023-2024); Graduate Admin Assistant (2022-2023)

M.S. + Ph.D., Geography and African Studies Program, Penn State University

Janel Almond Moore

JT Mellon Satellite Partner (2023-2024); Curriculum Committee (2020-present)

PhD candidate in Educational Policy and Leadership, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Courtney Murray

#DigBlk Scholar (2020-2024)

PhD Student in English and African American Studies, Penn State University

Kendra Napier-Fonash

#DigBlk Scholar (2023-2024)

Glynnis Reed-Conway

#DigBlk Finish It Coordinator

Ph.D. candidate in Art Education and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State

Morgan Robinson

#DigBlk Scholar (2022-2024)

PhD student, History & African American Studies, Penn State University

Kimberley N. Travers

CBDR Satellite Researcher (23-24)

Master of Science student, Information Science, University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Takina Walker

#DigBlk Scholar (2022-2024)

Carmin Wong

#DigBlk Scholar (2022-2024)

PhD student, English Literature and African American and Diaspora Studies, Penn State University

Librarians and Archivists

Carol Rudisell

JT Mellon Satellite Partner (2023-2024)

Retired, Reference & Instructional Services, Univ. of Delaware

Curtis Small

Affiliate Librarian

Senior Assistant Librarian and Coordinator, Public Services, Univ. of Delaware

Kaitlyn Tanis

Affiliate Librarian

History and Social Sciences Librarian, Univ. of Delaware

Post-Doctoral Fellows and Visiting Faculty - Current

Sabrina Evans

JT Mellon Satellite Partner (2023-2024); #DigBlk Scholar (2020-2023)

Associate Professor of English, Howard University

Jennifer Isasi

Assistant Director of the Office of Digital Pedagogies and Initiatives/Director of the Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative, Penn State University

Andre E. Johnson

JT Mellon Satellite Partner (2023-2024); JT Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)

Professor of Communication, Univ. of Memphis

Sherita Johnson

JT Mellon Satellite Partner (2023-2024)

Associate Professor of English, Univ. of Southern Mississippi

Lynnette Overby

JT Satellite Partner (2023-2024); Faculty Affiliate, Arts Satellite Partner (2020-2022)

Professor of Theater at the Univ. of Delaware

Selena Sanderfer Doss

JT Mellon Visiting Faculty (2023-2024)

Associate Professor of History, Western Kentucky University

Derrick Spires

JT Mellon Visiting Faculty (2023-2024)

Associate Professor of English, Univ. of Delaware

Jewon Woo

JT Mellon Satellite Partner (2023-2024)

Associate Professor of English, Lorain County Community College

Post-Doctoral Fellows and Visiting Faculty - Past

Samantha Q. de Vera

JT Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023), Research Fellow (2021-2022)

Nneka Dennie

JT Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023)

Kristin Moriah

#DigBlk Satellite Partner (2018-2023), JT Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)

Assistant Professor, Queen's University

Arline Wilson

JT Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)

Graduate Researcher (2020-2021)

Kevin Winstead

CBDR CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2022)

Alumni

Kimberly Blockett

#DigBlk Mellon Faculty Fellow (F21)

Professor of English, Penn State University

Marc Blanc

Visiting Graduate Student Intern (2020-2022)

PhD candidate in English and American Literature, Washington Univ. in St. Louis

Michelle Byrnes

Co-chair, CCP Website and Database (2018-2022), CCP Team Member (2016-2018)

Undergraduate in Information Sciences and Technology, Penn State University

Maisha Carey

Affiliate Librarian (2020-2021)

Organizational Development & Learning Librarian, Univ. of Delaware

Daphney Chancy

Administrative Support Coordinator (2020-2022)

Christyne Corasmin

Admin & Events Committee (2021-2022)

Undergraduate in Liberal Arts with a focus in Political Science, Penn State University

Richard Daily

Social Media Committee (2020-2021)

Dual Title PhD Candidate in the History and African American Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Lauren Earl

Visiting Graduate Student Intern (SP21)

Master's of Library and Information Science, Syracuse University

Victoria Francois

Social Media Committee (2021-2022)

Undergraduate Student, Penn State University

datejie cheko green

Co-Chair of DigBlk Studios

Patrice Green

Curator for African American Collections, Penn State University (2021-2023)

Takiya Jackson

Social Media Committee (2020-2021)

Undergraduate student in Biobehavioral Health, Penn State

Anna Lacy

Project Coordinator (2018-2021), CCP Digital Archives, Co-chair and CCP Teaching Partners, Co-chair (2015-2021)

Ph.D. candidate in History, Univ. of Delaware

Hayden Lamphere

#DigBlk Scholar (2020-2022)

Master’s student in the Department of History, Penn State University

Moyra Schauffler

#DigBlk Scholar (2020-2022)

PhD Student in History, Penn State University

Justin Smith

#DigBlk Scholar (2020-2022)

Dual-title Ph.D. Candidate in English and African American Studies, Penn State University

Kaula Thomas

Social Media Committee (2020-2021)

Undergraduate in African American Studies, Penn State University

Nakisha Whittington

#DigBlk Scholar (2020-2021); Curriculum Co-chair (2020-2021)

PhD Student in Curriculum and Instruction, Penn State University

Genna Zagoren

Communications Committee (2020-2022)

Undergraduate in the College of Communications, Penn State University