“Tell Your Ancestor’s Story“-Sign up to be interviewed and have your session taped and aired on our website.
Continental Breakfast, Lunch, and Networking.
The day will conclude with our awards dinner. Our keynote speaker is Mélisande Short-Colomb, descendant of the 272 enslaved people sold by Georgetown University and founding member of the GMP Advisory Board.
Our awardees include:
Richard Cellini, Georgetown Memory Project
Nettie Washington Douglass, Frederick Douglass Family Initiatives
Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, Professor and Author.
Dr. Martha A. Sandweiss, Princeton University, Slavery Project
LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson
Darius Gray, Early Advocate for Digitizing Freedmen Bureau Records
Calvin W. M. Pearson, Sr. the Founder and President of Project 1619 Inc.
Margo Lee Williams, noted author
See full list of awardees at our website.
We hope to see you there.
The early ticket discount has been extended to May 11, 2018.
Please click on the link below to register or RSVP.
