Flowerings Project Advisors and Partners

SHIFT Collective

We are grateful to our partners SHIFT Collective (Bergis Jules, Lynette Johnson, and Jon Voss), who have been consulting with us, conducting stakeholder group interviews, and planning a key retreat event.

Reparative Archives Workshop

JMU is grateful to Lae’l Hughes-Watkins for facilitating a day-long Reparative Archives Workshop attended by JMU faculty and staff from academic departments, Libraries, and Furious Flower. The workshop fostered deep conversations across academic units about shared aspirations for our work. We are striving to further develop and put into practice a reparative and integrated model for library support of a living, academic center for the arts as part of our Flowerings partnership.

Flowerings Project Advisory Committee

The Flowerings Project Advisory Committee serves as a panel of consultants and guides as we explore our areas of inquiry based on their expertise in Black poetry, special collections and audiovisual archives, digital humanities, library spaces, and educational technology.

Howard Rambsy II professor of literature, Southern University Illinois Edwardsville	Aleia Brown assistant director, AAAD Hum	Stacie Williams division chief, archives and special collections, Chicago Public Library	Jon Cawthorne dean, Wayne State University Libraries	Julieanna L. Richardson executive director, History Makers
Opal Moore Poet, author, and critic Retired, chair and professor of English, Spelman College	Tyechia Thompson librarian, Virginia Tech University Libraries, and assistant professor, Department of English	Petrina Jackson director of the Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University	Trevor Owens head of digital content management, Library of Congress	Santi Thompson head of digital research services at the University of Houston Libraries and Eva Digital Research Endowed Library Professor

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