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Montpelier National-Summit 2018 WELCOME Letter from Kat Imhoff 5 Weekend Agenda 6 PARTICIPANTS Participant List... 6 Full Biographies. 8 GETTING AROUND Map of Constitutional Village Area 25 ^ V Map to Off-site Lodging 26 Things to Know About Your Stay 27 . • • _ * ' A b o u t M o n t p e l i e r 2 8 p ' ^ ^ I . ' NTHP's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund 29 . r E Pluribus Unum, by Rebecca Warde. The Montpelier Foundation, 2017. Mosaic created from pieces of brick excavated at living quarters of enslaved men, women, and children across Montpelier. On many plantations, bricks were made by enslaved women and children. 3 FROM KATIMHOFF Dear Friends and Colleagues, relationship to rights, freedom, and opportunity today. We understand how radical the project of telling the truth Thank you for making the time and space in your busy lives can be and that Montpelier has a very small role to play in to come to Montpelier for the first ever National Summit the broader work of creating a more truthful, complete, on Teaching Slavery, an important step towards creating and inclusive history. For that reason, we are pleased to a more honest and equitable version of history for future be partnering in this project with the National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural generations. It gives me a great sense of pride that this convening isn't just an academic All-Stars conference— Heritage Action Fund in convening this nationally though, indeed all of you are All-Stars. Instead, we are significant group of scholars, public historians, museum convening as an interdisciplinary workshop of peers with professionals, and descendants. the concrete and important goal of creating a methodology for how public historians work with descendants. Building on our experiences, on the lessons of history this plantation offers, and on your dedication and expertise, we At Montpelier we are proud of the work we have done to hope to create a new model for the way cultural institutions connect the history of slavery on this plantation to the interpret slavery that has long-lasting impacts and helps Americans of all types truly understand the ongoing long-lasting legacies of slavery in our society through our new slavery exhibition The Mere Distinction of Colour, The struggle for freedom, rights, and equality in our nation. success of the exhibition is the direct result of our long-term engagement with our descendant community, who have Sincerely, shaped the stories we tell, identified the right questions to answer, and embodied the humanity and struggle of their ancestors in creating new narratives for our visitors. Kat Imhoff For Americans to understand our country, we have to come President & CEO to grips with the history of slavery and how it shaped our James Madison's Montpelier 5 All events in Claude Moore Hall unless otherwise noted [ FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9 t 3:00 PM-4:00 PM Registration 6:30PM-7:15PM Happy Hour and Mingle * 4:00PM-5:00PM Welcome and Framing of Summit 7:15 PM-8:15 PM D i n n e r f L e w i s H a l l 1 5:00PM-6:30PM Exhibition Experience House and South Yard 8:30 PM Fireside Introductions > South Yard [ 1 SMURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 8:00AM-9:00AM Breakfast in houses 3:45 PM-4:15 PM L i k e G r o u p s S h a r e [ ft 9:00AM-10:30AM Importance/Timeliness of Work 4:15PM-4:30PM Break 10:30 AM-10:45 AM Break 4:30PM-5:30PM S y n t h e s i s 1 10:45 AM-12:00PM Framework Process (A-teams) 5:30PM-6:30PM Share out and Reflection 12:00 PM-12:30 PM Like Groups Share 6:30PM-7:00PM B r e a k | 12:30 PM-1:30PM Lunch 7:00PM-8:00PM Dinner L e w i s H a l l 1 1:30PM-2:30PM Tour Gilmore Cabin and Train Depot 8:00 PM Movie r 2:30 PM- 3:45 PM Framework Process (B-teams) 1 1 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11 r 8:00AM-9:00AM Breakfast in houses 10:45 AM-11:30 AM F i n a l F r a m e w o r k 1 9:00AM-9:30AM Remembrance and Reflection 11:30 AM-12:00PM Implementation Recommendations i Enslaved Community's Cemetery 12:00 PM-1:00PM Working Lunch - Next Steps * 9:30AM-10:30AM F r a m e w o r k R e fi n e m e n t 1:00 PM Farewell f 10:30 AM-10:45 AM Break I 6 1 PARTICIPANTS Dina Bailey (Facilitator) Chris Danemayer CEO, Mountain Top Vision; Adjunct Faculty, Johns Hopkins University, Principal, Proun Design Advanced Academic Programs LaNesha deBardelaben, Ph.D. Joy Banner, Ph.D. Executive Director, Northwest African American Museum Marketing Director and Descendant, Whitney Plantation Museum O m a r E a t o n - M a r t i n e z Ed Baptist, Ph.D. Independent Scholar Professor of History and American Studies, Cornell University Patrice Grimes, Ph.D. Niya Bates Professor of Education, University of Virginia; Montpelier Descendant Community Public Historian of Slavery and African American Life, Thomas Jefferson's MonticeUo Shawn Halifax Director of Interpretation, McLeod Plantation Michael Blakey, Ph.D. National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology, Evelyn Higginhotham, Ph.D. College of William and Mary, Montpelier Descendant Community Professor of History, and of African and African Americans Studies, Harvard University; founder and coordinator. Social Engagement Initiative of the Sara Bon-Harper, Ph.D. Department of African and African Americans Studies; Board Chair, ASALH CEO, James Monroe's Highland Kat Imhoff Kayleigh Bryant-Greenwell President and CEO, The Montpelier Foundation Curator. Writer. Activist. Nicole Ivy, Ph.D. April Burns Director of Inclusion, American Alliance of Museums MonticeUo Descendant; President, CharlottesviUe/Albemarle Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society Abdul H. Jamaludeen, M.D. Head of of Internal Medicine Practice, Hampton and Virginia Beach; Greg Carr, Ph.D. Member of Community Faculty, Eastern Virginia Medical School Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Chair of Department of Afro-American Studies, Howard University; Adjunct Faculty, Howard School of Law Hasan Kwame Jef&ies, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History, Ohio State University, Kirwan Institute for Elizabeth Chew, Ph.D. the Study of Race and Ethnicity Vice President of Museum Programs, James Madison's Montpelier Jacqueline Johnson Ann Chinn Director of Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Initiatives of Change Executive Director, Middle Passage Project; Mount Vernon Descendant Margaret Jordan Maureen Costello Montpelier Descendant Community and Montpelier Board member; Director of Teaching Tolerance, Southern Poverty Law Center President & CEO, Dallas Medical Resource Christian Cotz Director of Education and Visitor Engagement, James Madison's Montpelier 8 Sean Kelley Matthew Reeves, Ph.D. Senior Vice President, Director of Interpretation, Eastern State Director of Archaeology and Landscape Restoration, James Madison's Montpelier Penitentiary Historic Site Justin Reid Elizabeth Ladner, Ph.D. Director of African American Programs, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Director of Research, James Madison's Montpelier Natalie Robertson, Ph.D. Talitha LeFlonria, Ph.D. Professor of History, Hampton University Professor of American Studies and Fellow, Carter G. Woodson Institute, Ashley Rogers University of Virginia Director of Museum Operations, Whitney Plantation Museum Lauranett Lee, Ph.D. Hannah Scruggs Founding Curator of African American History, Virginia Historical Society Research Associate and Head of Montpelier's African American Brent Leggs Descendants' Project Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund; Assistant Clinical Professor of Historic Preservation, University of Maryland Kate Shuster, Ph.D. School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Shuster Consulting, Inc.; Teaching Tolerance at Southern Poverty Law Center Marcel Sykes Jessie MacLeod Associate Curator, George Washington's Mount Vernon Manager of Interpretive Programs, James Madison's Montpelier TraceyTodd Joe McGill Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Middleton Place Founder, Slave Dwelling Project Noelle Trent, Ph.D. George R. Monroe, Jr. Director of Interpretation, Collections and Education, National Civil Owner, George West End Barbershop and Salons, and Highland Descendant Rights Museum G i l e s M o r r i s Vice President of Marketing and Communications, James Madison's Montpelier Max van Balgooy President, Engaging Places; Adjunct Professor, George Washington University, Museum Studies Program; Head Instructor 6c Facilitator, Seminar for Historical Leontyne Peck Principal, Leontyne Peck Consulting; Montpelier Descendant Community Administration, AASLH Lee Pringle Ahmad Ward Middleton Place Descendant; Founder and Artistic Director, Colour of CEO, Mitchelville Preservation Project Music Festival David Young, Ph.D. Judge Rohulamin Quander, J.D. CEO, Cliveden; Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania Graduate Program in Mount Vernon Descendant, retired Senior Administrative Judge for Historic Preservation Washington, D.C. 9 Ed Baptist BIOGRAPHIES Ed Baptist grew up in Durham, North Carolina, received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown Dina Bailey University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Dina Bailey is the CEO of Mountain Top Vision, a Pennsylvania. At Cornell, he is a Professor in the consulting company that focuses on organizational Department of History. The author of The Half Has transformation in the non-profit and educational sectors. Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American She works with organizations to embrace strategic Capitalism (2014) and Creating an Old South: Middle initiatives that lead to more diverse and inclusive Florida's Plantation Frontier Before the Civil War communities. Dina was previously the Director of (2002), he also co-edited New Studies in the History Educational Strategies for the National Center for of American Slavery with the late Stephanie Camp. Baptist leads Freedom on the Civil and Human Rights and the Director of Museum Move (http://freedomonthemove.org), a collaborative effort to build a crowdsourced Experiences for the National Underground Railroad database of fugitive slave ads, which recently won an NEIT Digital Advancement Freedom Center.
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