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RHSQ Coffee & Conversations: Kyera Singleton
Thursday, May 14, 2020 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
FreeThe Royall House & Slave Quarters invites you to its first live online program: a conversation with Kyera Singleton, the organizaton’s new executive director. RHSQ board member Barbara Berenson will interview Kyera about her journey to this historic Medford institution and her plans for the museum.
Kyera is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of American Culture at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and currently a dissertation fellow in the history department at Harvard University. She has held academic fellowships from Emory University and the American Association of University Women. She has a B.A. in American Studies and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies from Macalester College.
Kyera has demonstrated her commitment to making history both visible and accessible through public history projects in museums and nonprofits that are committed to social justice. She served as the Humanity in Action Policy Fellow for the ACLU of Georgia, where she worked on various issues including mass incarceration, reproductive justice, and voting rights. And she was a research fellow for the Charles Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.
To join in, visit this GoToWebinar registration link: https://cts.vresp.com/c/?RoyallHouseSlaveQuar/74b414ebc2/9479a100c3/f90e5c3684
This program will also be recorded and posted to the RHSQ’s new YouTube channel.