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Renée Ater taught in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Maryland from September 2000 to July 2017 an Associate Professor Emerita of American Art. She holds a B.A. in art history from Oberlin College (1987); a M.A. in art history from the University of Maryland (1993); and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Maryland (2000). Her research and writing have largely focused on the intersection of race, monument building, and national identity. Her current research project is \_Contemporary Monuments to the Slave Past: Race, Memorialization, Public Space, and Civic Engagement\_. In this planned digital publication, she investigates how people visualize, interpret, and engage the slave past through contemporary monuments created for public spaces. Her research is predicated on the idea that the memorialization of slavery is plural and multi-vocal, and is rooted in the interwoven nature of the social, the historical, and the spatial. Image: [umd.edu](https://arthistory.umd.edu/faculty/Ren%C3%A9e%20Ater "umd.edu")

F. Sheffield Hale is President and CEO of the Atlanta History Center. Prior to joining the Atlanta History Center in 2012 he served as Chief Counsel of the American Cancer Society, Inc. and was a Partner practicing corporate law in the firm of Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP. Mr. Hale serves as a Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Fox Theatre, Inc., Buckhead Coalition, Midtown Alliance, and Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau. He is a Past Chair of the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, the Atlanta History Center, St. Jude’s Recovery Center, Inc., and the State of Georgia’s Judicial Nominating Commission. Mr. Hale received his B.A. in History from the University of Georgia summa cum laude in 1982, and received his J.D. in 1985 from the University of Virginia School of Law. He is a member of the American Law Institute.

As deputy managing editor, Marjorie Pritchard oversees the Globe’s opinion page. She edits Globe staff columnists and regular contributors as well as commission pieces from thought leaders around the country. Image: Facebook/Marjorie Pritchard

Bryan Trabold, PhD, is Associate Professor and Chair of the Suffolk University English Department. He has authored \_Rhetorics of Resistance: Opposition Journalism in Apartheid South Africa\_ and helped edit \_Literacy, Economy, and Power: Writing and Research Ten Years after Literacy in American Lives\_. Image: [The Suffolk Journal](https://thesuffolkjournal.com/25762/world-news-at-suffolk/suffolk-professor-feature-trabold-reflects-on-experience-in-post-apartheid-africa/ "The Suffolk Journal")

Amit Chaudhuri is a novelist, essayist, poet, and musician. He lives in Calcutta and the United Kingdom, where he is a professor of contemporary literature at the University of East Anglia.

Sanfor Biggers is a Los Angeles native working as a visual artist and performer in New York City. He has recently exhibited work at the Brooklyn Museum, Sculpture Center and Mass MoCA. Biggers has won awards including the American Academy in Berlin Prize, Greenfield Prize, and the Lambent Fellowship in the Arts. Biggers is Assistant Professor at Columbia University's Visual Arts program.

**John Leland** is a reporter at The New York Times, where he wrote a yearlong series that became the basis for Happiness Is a Choice You Make, and the author of two previous books, Hip: The History and Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of “On the Road” (They’re Not What You Think).

Justin Tinsley is a culture and sports writer for The Undefeated, a sports and pop culture website owned and operated by ESPN. He received a BA in Public Relations/Image Management from Hampton University, and a Masters in Strategic Marketing & Communications Grade from Georgetown University.

**Dr Laura Kehoe** is a primary care physician currently working at Mass General Hospital. She researches addiction medication and graduated from the Tufts School of Medicine

**Jane Coaston** is a senior for Vox, with a concentration in conservatism and the American Right. She has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, ESPN, and The Ringer.

Udodiri Okwandu is a graduate student in the History of Science, with a secondary in African and African American Studies and a Presidential Scholar at Harvard University. She is interested in the history of medicine and public health, history of gender and sexuality, and critical race theory in the United States. She is particularly interested in the ways in which scientific and medical inquiry have been deployed by the state to manage and control marginalized populations. Orginally from Southern California, Udodiri completed her undergraduate studies in 2017 at Harvard College where she graduated cum laude with an AB in the History of science (with a focus in Mind, Brain, and Behavior) and a minor in Global Health and Health Policy. Her senior thesis, which won the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize, an award which recognizes outstanding scholarly work or research by students selected by a committee of faculty from Harvard University's Faculty of Arts and Sciences, examined the medicalization and racialization of Civil Rights protests in the 1960s, contextualizing it with the rise of law and order political ideology.

**Dr. Dara Arons** is a Family Physician for Charles River Community Health. Dara graduated from the Yale School of Medicine in 2006 and was awarded the Connecticut Academy of Family Physicians Honor and the Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation.