We Who Believe in Freedom: Black Feminist DC

About

Team

Dr. Kendra T. Field, Associate Professor of History and Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora, Tufts University; Curator                                                                                         

Dr. Kendra Taira Field is associate professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. She is also interim co-chair of the newly-founded Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. Field is the author of Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (Yale, 2018) and served as assistant editor to David Levering Lewis’ W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (Henry Holt, 2009). Her current book project, The Stories We Tell (W.W. Norton), is a history of African American genealogy and storytelling from the Middle Passage to the present. Field's articles have appeared in the Journal of American History and the American Historical Review. Beyond the academy, Field is co-founder and co-director of the African American Trail Project and project historian for the W.E.B. Du Bois Center for Freedom and Democracy.

Field has been awarded fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Huntington Library, and Harvard University's Charles Warren Center in American History. She is the recipient of the Western Writers of America's 2017 Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction, the 2016 Boahen-Wilks Prize, and the 2022 NAACP W.E.B. Du Bois Award. Field has advised and appeared in historical documentaries including Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (2013), Roots: A History Revealed (2016), and Tulsa Burning: The 1921 Race Massacre (2021). Field received her Ph.D. in American history from New York University. She also holds a master's in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and a B.A. from Williams College. Before entering the academy, she worked in education, organizing, and the non-profit sector in Boston and New York.

Dr. Sherie M. Randolph, Associate Professor of History Georgia Institute of Technology; Curator 

Sherie M. Randolph, Ph.D., is an associate professor of history at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the founder of the Black Feminist Think Tank. Formerly an associate professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Randolph’s book Florynce “Flo" Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical, published by the University of North Carolina Press (October 2015), examines the connections between the Black Power, civil rights, New Left and feminist movements.

The former associate director of the Women’s Research & Resource Center at Spelman College, Randolph has received several grants and fellowships for her work, most recently being awarded fellowships from the University of Connecticut’s Humanities Institute and Brown University’s Howard Foundation.

Randolph is currently writing her second book "Bad” Black Mothers: A History of Transgression.

Susan Danish, Treasurer, NWHM Board of Directors

Zoe Schoen, Exhibition Researcher

Susan Gail Johnson, SGJ Consulting LLC 

Dr. Lori Ann Terjesen, VP of Education, NWHM

Tessellate Studio, Exhibition Designer

Capitol Museum Services, Exhibition Fabricator 

Blue Telescope Labs, Interactive Technology Designer

The Exhibition Advisory Committee                                                                                        

Lee Murphy

NWHM acknowledges the early contributions of Holly Hotchner and Dr. Aleia Brown.