Reparations Team
Core Leadership Team:
Joanne M. Braxton, PhD - 4th generation Legacy Lakelander, William & Mary Professor Emeritus, President of the Braxton Institute
Nicole Oxendine - Strategic Communications, Partnership Liaison and Community Engagement
Maxine Gross - a Legacy Lakelander, founding chairperson of the Lakeland Community Heritage Project
Sophie Bouwsma - Communications and Peacebuilding
cOMMUNITY fELLOWS
Blair Bowie, Esq. -
Community Fellow
Jordan Chadwick - Community Fellow
Angela Wilson - Community Fellow
Key Collaborators
Mindy Fullilove, MD - Author, Root Shock and Urban Alchemy
Clara Irazábal-Zurita, PhD - Director of Urban Studies and Planning at the U of Maryland College Park
Dreisen Heath - Why We Can’t Wait Reparations Coalition
Mark Osler - Reparations Advocate, Board Member Emeritus, Braxton Institute
Charkera Ervin, JD - Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center Organizing Collaborative, Howard U
Trish Floyd - Maryland Policy Strategist & Community Advocate
Commissioner Edmund Ford - Reparations Expert
Bi'Anncha Andrews - Community Organizer, Social Worker, Doctoral Candidate in Urban and Regional Planning/Design