Andrea Roberts

From her bio: " Her postdoctoral research explores African American diasporas and heritage through ethnographic study and documentation of the history of African American placemaking and planning in early ex-slave settlements as well as contemporary grassroots planning and social constructions of "free Black " communities."

Andrea would be great! I have urged PARG to invite her as an Emerging Voices speaker. She's doing really interesting work that puts racial justice at the heart of historic preservation and re-imagines what "historic preservation" can mean when places no longer exist on a map but still matter deeply to living communities.