Our work

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In partnerships with Kristin Gallas of MUSE Consulting and Michelle Moon of Saltworks, we organized, developed and facilitated a series of fifteen workshops (in-person and virtual) to build capacity across the regions served by the National Park Service's Chesapeake Gateways Network for goal-setting and program development in preparation for the country's 250th anniversary.

We supported the Museum of the City of New York's Civics in the City project, developing a teaching advisory group, learning resources, and teaching professional development workshops to draw on their history exhibitions, including Activist New York and Shirley Chisholm, to teach local civics, including knowledge, skills, mindsets, and experiences.

Working closely with Thinking Nation's curriculum writers, we identified D.C. museums, historic sites, archives, and libraries that can contribute object-, place-, and document-based resources to each unit in a 7-12 social studies curriculum  for a consortium of D.C. charter schools.

As a member of the Board of Literacy InterActives, an all-volunteer organization, I serve as a "linked descendant" supporting the founder, whose ancestors were enslaved by my ancestors on a Southside Virginia plantation, Prestwould. Under her leadership, I support the preservation of a cabin lived in by her family for almost 100 years that sits on the edge of the former estate. I managed the redevelopment of the project's website, launching in December 2023.

Working with ICSC, I co-led a workshop for the Central Connecticut State University public history and teacher education programs to support development of a new course for teacher candidates using place-based learning to strengthen their content knowledge and understanding of diverse histories across their state.

In 2007, I created the department of education at Ford's Theatre, partnering closely with the National Park Service to design programs, create exhibitions, and develop resources that have made the site more relevant to a local audience and made it more accessible to national and international visitors. Leading a team of five full-time and many contractors, we developed two award-winning summer teacher institutes and a long-term national teacher program, the National Oratory Fellows, that created the Ford's Approach to Teaching Oratory. Additionally, I oversaw creation of our first interpretive plan, working in partnership with the Park Service and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, we re-framed Ford's Theatre as a place that stands in opposition to political violence like that John Wilkes Booth perpetrated at the theatre, and as a place to explore memorialization. We created the collaborative digital exhibition, Remembering Lincoln, and I co-led development of an institutional digital strategy. As a member of the senior leadership team, I worked closely with the Directors of Development, Finance, and Marketing to identify earned and contributed revenue streams, managing a team of up to five staff and 15 contract educators.