Participants

Kaci Nash

Initiative Project Manager

Emily Binder

Mellon Graduate Research Assistant (2024-present)

Elodie Galeazzi

Mellon Graduate Research Assistant (2023-2024)

Anne Gregory

Mellon Graduate Research Assistant (2023-2025)

Cecily Lawton

Mellon Graduate Research Assistant (2025-present)

Joy Ford Austin 

CEO, Joy Ford Austin Arts and Humanities Advocacy

Francene Blythe-Lewis 

Executive Director, Vision Maker Media

Lina-Maria Murillo

University of Texas at Austin
Associate Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies 

Linda Ho Peché

Project Director, Vietnamese in the Diaspora Digital Archive 

Sharon Pratt

Founding Director, Institute for Politics Policy and History

Doris Morgan Rueda

Appalachian State University
Assistant Professor of History

Sharlene Sinegal-DeCuir 

Xavier University of Louisiana
Associate Professor of History, Keller Family Endowed Professor

Previous Council Members

Kent Blansett 

University of Kansas
Langston Hughes Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies and History

Holly Brewer 

University of Maryland
Burke Professor of American History and Associate Professor of History

Anne Soon Choi

California State University, Northridge
Assistant Vice President of Faculty Programs and Initiatives, Professor of Asian American Studies

Taja-Nia Henderson

Rutgers University-Newark
Professor of Law, Dean of the Graduate School

Alise Pape 

Gretna High School History Teacher
2022 Nebraska History Teacher of the Year

Alberto Rodriguez 

Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Associate Professor of History, Director of the Mexican American Studies Institute