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Senior Leadership

Gabrielle Foreman

CBDR Co-Director
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Colored Conventions Project

Chris Dancy

CBDR Co-Director
Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering & Computer Science and Engineering

Jim Casey

CBDR Associate Director
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Colored Conventions Project
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Douglass Day

Denise Burgher

Director, Community and Curricular Engagement; Co-director, Douglass Day

Lauren Cooper

CBDR Managing Director and Digital Scholarship Librarian

Administration

Sergio Carmona

Budget and Finance Coordinator

Gabrielle Sutherland

Event and Communications Administrator, Project Management

Graduate Research Leaders

Lauren Barnes

#DigBlk Scholar
Dual Title Ph.D., English and African American and Diaspora Studies, Penn State University

Keon Burns

#DigBlk Scholar
Dual title PhD candidate, US History and African American Studies, Penn State University

Rachel Fernandes

#DigBlk/JT Visiting Scholar
PhD candidate, English Language and Literatures, Queen’s University

Christopher D. Harris

#DigBlk Satellite Researcher
Ph.D. student, Department of Communication and Film, University of Memphis

Carl Frederick Hill

#DigBlk Satellite Researcher, Communication and Film, University of Memphis

Victoria McKeller-Peoples

#DigBlk Scholar
Penn State University

Eden Mekonen

#DigBlk Scholar
Ph.D., Geography and African Studies Program, Penn State University

Janel Almond Moore

#DigBlk/JT Satellite Partner
PhD candidate, Educational Policy and Leadership, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Courtney Murray

#DigBlk Scholar
PhD Candidate, English and African American Studies, Penn State University

Jormailin Valdes Pareras

#DigBlk Scholar
Penn State University

Krystion M. Pegues

#DigBlk Satellite Researcher
Graduate student, Communication and Women, Gender, and Sexuality, University of Memphis

Chaunece Reed

#DigBlk Scholar
Master's student, English, Penn State University

Kimberley N. Travers

#DigBlk Satellite Researcher
Ph.D.student, Communication, University of Memphis

Carmin Wong

#DigBlk Scholar
PhD student, English and African American and Diaspora Studies, Penn State University

Deja Workman

PhD student in Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State

Undergraduate Researchers

Kenisha Brown

#DigBlk Research Assistant
Undergraduate, Communication, Arts, and Sciences, Penn State University

Breonna Greene

Douglass Day Communication Student Assistant
Undergraduate, Marketing, Penn State University

Hunter Reed

#DigBlk Research Assistant
Undergraduate, Landscape Architecture, Penn State University

Schylar Satchell

Douglass Day Communication Student Assistant
Undergraduate, Criminology, Penn State University

Tahfiq Williams

#DigBlk Communications & Events Student Assistant
Undergraduate, International Politics & Economics, Penn State University

Librarians and Archivists

Carol Rudisell

#DigBlk Satellite Partner
Retired, Reference & Instructional Services, Univ. of Delaware

Post-Doctoral Fellows, Visiting Faculty, and Faculty Partners - Current

Samantha Q. de Vera

#DigBlk Satellite Partner
#DigBlk/JT Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023), Research Fellow (2021-2022)

Sabrina Evans

#DigBlk/JT Satellite Partner
Associate Professor of English, Howard University

Jennifer Isasi

#DigBlk Faculty Partner
Assistant Director, Office of Digital Pedagogies; Director, Digital Liberal Arts Research Initiative, Penn State University

Andre E. Johnson

#DigBlk Satellite Partner
Professor of Rhetoric and Media Studies, Dept. of Communications, Univ. of Memphis

Sherita L. Johnson

#DigBlk/JT Commonwealth Faculty Fellow
Director, African Research Center (ARC); Associate Professor, English, Penn State University

Brandi Locke

Coordinator of Arts Partnerships and the #Harper 200 Project
#DigBlk/JT Postdoctoral Fellow, Penn State University

Lynnette Overby

#DigBlk/JT Satellite Partner
Retired, Professor of Theater at the Univ. of Delaware

Selena Sanderfer Doss

#DigBlk/JT Satellite Partner
Associate Professor of History, Western Kentucky University

Eunice Toh

#DigBlk Research Associate, Penn State University

Jewon Woo

#DigBlk Satellite Partner
Professor of English, Lorain County Community College

Directors – Past

Shirley Moody-Turner

CBDR Co-Director (2020-2025)
Founder, Black Women's Organizing Archive

Post-Doctoral Fellows, Visiting Faculty, and Faculty Partners - Past

Nneka Dennie

#DigBlk/JT Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-2023)

Tony Frazier

#DigBlk/JT Faculty Fellow (2024-2025)
Assistant Professor, History, Penn State University

Summer Hamilton

Digital Projects Developer and Assistant Research Professor of Digital Scholarship, Penn State University (2022-2024)

Lucien Holness

#DigBlk/JT Faculty Fellow (2024-2025)
Assistant Professor, History, Penn State University

Kristin Moriah

#DigBlk Satellite Partner (2018-2023), #DigBlk/JT Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)
Assistant Professor, Queen's University

Kevin Pyon

#DigBlk Faculty Partner (2023-2025)
Assistant Professor, American Literature, Race, and Ethnic Studies, Penn State University

Derrick Spires

#DigBlk/JT Satellite Partner
Associate Professor of English, Univ. of Delaware

Arline Wilson

#DigBlk/JT Postdoctoral Fellow (2022)
Graduate Researcher (2020-2021)

Kevin Winstead

CBDR CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2022)

Alumni

Kimberly Blockett

#DigBlk/JT Faculty Fellow (F21)
Professor of English, Penn State University

Taylor Abrams-Rollinson

#DigBlk Satellite Researcher
Ph.D. student, Communication and Film, University of Memphis (2023-2025)

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

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

Jennifer L. Carner

CBDR Satellite Researcher (23-24)
PhD student, African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric, Christian Theological Seminary

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

Kesla Elmore

#DigBlk Scholar (2022-2024, SP2025)
Ph.D. student, English, Penn State 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

Angel Ledesma

#DigBlk Scholar (2024-2025)
Master's student, English, Penn State University

Yolanda Mackey

#DigBlk Scholar (2022-2024)
PhD Student, 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

Kendra Napier-Fonash

#DigBlk Scholar (2023-2025)
Penn State University

Glynnis Reed-Conway

#DigBlk Finish It Coordinator (2023-2024)
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

Moyra Schauffler

#DigBlk Scholar (2020-2022)
PhD Student in History, Penn State University

Curtis Small

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

Justin Smith

#DigBlk Scholar (2020-2022)
Dual-title Ph.D. Candidate in English and African American Studies, Penn State University

Kaitlyn Tanis

Affiliate Librarian
History and Social Sciences Librarian, Univ. of Delaware

Kaula Thomas

Social Media Committee (2020-2021)
Undergraduate in African American Studies, Penn State University

Takina Walker

#DigBlk Scholar (2022-2025)
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, College of Communications, Penn State University