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