Unburying Voices: Community-Engaged Reparative Justice
Date: Saturday, Apr 12, 2025
Start time: 10:00 a.m.
End time: 2:30 p.m.
Location: Virginia Museum of History and Culture (428 N Arthur Ashe Blvd, Richmond)
Audience: Free and open to all. Lunch will be served. Registration required.
Join the Humanities Research Center for the Spring 2025 History and Health Symposium, "Unburying Voices: Community-Engaged Reparative Justice." This Symposium will include presentations by East Marshall Street Well (EMSW) Project Family Representative Council members; Ana Edwards, interviewer for the EMSW Oral History Project; Health Humanities Lab undergraduate fellows; and a roundtable discussion moderated by Sheryl Garland with:
- Carmen Foster and Stephanie Smith, Family Representative Council, East Marshall Street Well Project, Richmond, VA
- Jazmin Benton, Sacharja Cunningham, and Lex Wilson, Finding Ceremony, Philadelphia, PA
- Jessica Harris and DeTeasa Gathers, The Descendants of Enslaved Communities at University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Additional speakers include: Kevin Allison, Daniel Sunshine, and Stephen Davenport.
Sponsor(s): Health Humanities Lab in the Humanities Research Center, The Office of Health Initiatives, Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Event contact: Michael L. Dickinson, Ph.D., mldickinson@vcu.edu