Projects

Click to listen to - The Secret Society of Twisted Storytellers - November 2016.  The theme was Soulfood, which discussed the ancestors. 

• Wayne County Community College District

• Cass Technical High School - Detroit, MI

• Wayne State University Juneteenth Event

• Charlotte Mecklenburg Library "Untangled: Discovering Truths in Family Myths and Stories"

• National African American Studies Conference - Dallas, Texas

• National Civil Rights Conference, Nashville, TN

• Wayne County Community College District – Genealogy Instructor and Continuing Education Workshops on Genealogy and Detroit's Underground Railroad.

• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Alpha Rho Omega Chapter – Genealogy Presentation

• Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Great Lakes Region Conference 2021 – Presentation

• Detroit City Council, Black History Month Program

• Jack and Jill of America, Inc. – Midwest Regional Mother’s Conference

• Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Detroit Chapter & Children’s Cluster – Mother’s and Teens Workshop and historic bus tours on Black History

• Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church – Black Family Day Presentation Program

• Parkview Towers Senior Living Apartments Senior Workshop

• Developed, coordinated, and narrated the City of Detroit and Cincinnati, Ohio, and historic bus tours of Detroit's Underground Railroad.

• National Genealogical Society Award – 2019

• National Park Service Underground Railroad Regional Conference – Cincinnati, OH 2012, 2014

• National Genealogical Society Conference 2012, 2016, 2018

Articles about Genealogy are listed below: 

Diverse Issues in Higher Education March, 2025

Michigan Chronicle - March, 2014

The Michigan Citizen - March 2014

The Michigan Citizen - June 2014​

Walking in the footsteps of my ancestors as I visit the Currie/Curry Plantation of my material ancestors in Haywood County, TN.

The Slave Pen was used as a holding pen by Kentucky slave trader Capt—John W. Anderson to warehouse enslaved people who would be sold farther south temporarily. The slave pen plays an integral role in telling the greater story of the internal slave trade in the United States. Located in Downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, click here to learn more.