Justin Harty, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University’s School of Social Work. He earned his doctorate at the University of Chicago and holds dual bachelor’s degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master’s in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Chicago. With a background as a licensed…
Continue Reading »Madelena Eifert holds a Masters in Public Health (M.P.H.) with a focus on epidemiological methods and research.
Continue Reading »Nadia Bukach is a clinical M.S.W. student at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Mellon Foundation Social Welfare History Graduate Fellow at VCU Libraries. She earned her B.A. in Geography from the University of Richmond in 2010, and a certificate in massage therapy in 2012. She served as GIS technician at the University of Richmond’s Geospatial…
Continue Reading »Angela Lehman received a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2001 and a Master of Arts in history from VCU in 2023. Between 2001 and 2013, she was a freelance journalist, receiving a 2010 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship to attend the Arts Journalism Institute in Classical Music and…
Continue Reading »Shruti Sathish graduated from the University of Richmond in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and minors in Health Studies and Mathematics. She is is passionate about the role of storytelling in creating social change, and since 2021 has been working with HIV awareness activist Willnette Cunningham to write Cunningham’s…
Continue Reading »Willnette Cunningham is a retired postal worker, an AIDS survivor and HIV awareness activist. She has worked for more than 15 years to raise awareness of this infection and disease, to educate on transmission and progression if not taken seriously, and to advocate for prevention of spreading of this disease. Cunningham sums up her work…
Continue Reading »Jessica S. Samuel, Ph. D. is an educator, interdisciplinary scholar and decolonial activist whose work focuses on race, education, colonialism and the environment, including where they all might converge, in the United States and Caribbean. Her research has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, Social Science Research Council, and…
Continue Reading »Annette M. Jennings, L.C.S.W., C.C.M., is a social worker in the Program of General Caregiver Support Services at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System in San Antonio, Texas. She holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities and a master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern…
Continue Reading »Sarah H. Shepherd is is the archivist at the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Continue Reading »James I. Randall is a graduate student in History at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Randall has an interest in and appreciation for the intersections of global social histories, especially regarding their use to educate the general public about past movements for economic and social justice, and in linking their relevance to current affairs. He received…
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