Biography:

Denise Burgher is the director of curriculum and community engagement at the Colored Conventions Project where she co-directs Douglass Day with Jim Casey at the Center for Black Digital Research at Penn State. Her forthcoming book project focuses on Afro-Protestant nineteenth century women educators in the Colored Conventions Movement. Her work has been supported by a dissertation fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia and has appeared in Legacy, The Collective Wisdom Handbook, and in numerous public venues. She is a member of Just Teach One and is a co-founder and co-director of the Black digital humanities project, Taught by Literature which focuses on the work of Alice Dunbar Nelson and her literary contemporaries.