Our Advisors
Dr. Randy L. Akers | Executive Director, SC Humanities
Ms. Andrea Allen | Community Leader
Mr. Michael Allen | Retired National Park Service, Reconstruction Era Specialist
Mrs. LaTanya Allen | SES Program Manager, Supplemental Education Service Provider; Certified Facilitator, Carolina Youth Development Center; Behavioral Therapist
Mr. Allard Allston, III | Former Partner, Motley Rice LLC
Mr. James P Atkins | President, Beaufort Flight Training Corp and Member, Sons of Confederate Veterans
Hon. Bruce Babbitt | Former Secretary, United States Department of Interior
Ms. Marie Banac | Branch Manager, St. Helena Branch Library, South Carolina
Mr. Jack Bass | Author & Journalist, The College of Charleston
Hon. Stephen K. Benjamin | Mayor Columbia, South Carolina
Dr. David Blight | Professor of American History;Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
Bishop Dr. Jack Bomar | New Thought Unity Church
Ms. Bridgit Brown | Director of Operations, Join for Justice, Boston, Massachusetts
Prof. W. Lewis Burke | Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina Law School
Dr. Vernon Burton | Professor of History, Clemson University
Dr. Emory Shaw Campbell | Gullah Historian & Author, President of Gullah Heritage Consulting Services
Mr. Kwadjo Campbell | President and CEO, Jeffers-Campbell Associates
Ms. Barbara Catenacci | Executive Director, Heritage Foundation
Ms. Christy Coleman | CEO, American Civil War Museum
Dr. Eric Crawford | Musicologist, Professor, Coastal Carolina University
Councilman Phil Cromer | Councilman, Beaufort City
Councilman Gerald Dawson | Councilman, Beaufort County
Mayor Joe Devito | Mayor, Town of Port Royal
Dr. Bobby Donaldson | Professor of History, University of South Carolina; Director Center Rights Research & History
Ms. Vernita Dore | Former Undersecretary, EDA, US Department of Agriculture
Dr. Gregory Downs | Associate Professor of History, University of California-Davis; Co-Author "NPS Theme Study on Reconstruction"
Rep. Shannon Erickson | Representative, South Carolina House of Representatives
Mr. Amiri Farris | Artist
Mr. Michael Fernandez | Strategic Communication Consultant
Jamie Fleming | Founder, 1212 Design LLC
Dr. Eric Foner | Dewitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University, specializes in the Civil War & Reconstruction
Prof. Damon L. Fordham | Adjunct Professor, The Citadel
Mr. Rex Garniewicz | President & CEO, Coastal Discovery Museum
Dr. Henry Louis Gates | Alphonse Fletcher University Professor & Director Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University
Dr. Grant Gilmore | Director, Historic Preservation and Community Planning; College of Charleston
Mr. Darrin Goss | President, Coastal Community Foundation
Mr. Johnathan Green | Artist & Educator
Mr. David Grim | Author, Reconstruction History Novels
Ms. Bonnie Hargrove | Director, University of South Carolina-Beaufort Center for the Arts; Member of City of Beaufort Cultural Commission
Dr. Bobby Harley | Executive Director, South Carolina African American Heritage Foundation
Ms. Jannie Harriot | Chairperson, African American Heritage Commission
Dr. William C. Hine | Retired Professor, SC State University
Ms. Heather L. Hodges | Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor
Rev. Kenneth F. Hodges | Pastor, Tabernacle Baptist Church; former Representative SC House of Representatives
Ms. Barbara G. Holmes | Attorney, Land Protection
Ms. Carole Ingram | Ret. Principal, Beaufort Middle School
Mr. Al Jenkins | Regional Director, Office of Senator Tim Scott
Mr. Nathan Jenkinson III | Attorney, Jenkinson Jarrett and Kellahan P.A.
Dr. Faye Jensen | Executive Director, SC Historical Society
Mr. Juan Johnson | Consultant, Riley Diversity Leadership Institute, Furman University
Mr. Nathan Johnson | Park Manager, South Carolina Department of Parks Recreation and Tourism
Hon. Billy Keyserling | Former Mayor, City of Beaufort, South Carolina
Ms. Kaylan Koszela | Director of Community Outreach, Office of Former Congressman Joe Cunningham
Ms. Elisabeth Laney | Park Interpreter, South Carolina Department of Parks Recreation and tourism
Ms. Carol Lauvray | Member, Beaufort History Museum
Dr. Bob Lefavi | Dean, University of South Carolina-Beaufort
Dr. Dan Littlefield | Professor of History, University of South Carolina; Author of Publications on Reconstruction Era and Slavery
Dr. Valinda Littlefield | Professor, History and African American Studies, University of South Carolina
Ms. Maxine Lutz | Former Executive Director, Historic Beaufort Foundation
Dr. Kate Masur | Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University; Co-Author of “NPS Theme Study on Reconstruction;” Published works on Civil War Black Politics
Dr. John McCardell | Vice Chancellor, University of the South, Sewanee
Mr. Joseph McGill Jr. | Founder, Slave Dwelling Project
Dr. Mae Mendoza | President, Beaufort County Historical Society
Dr. Page Putnam-Miller | Retired Professor of History, University of South Carolina
Gen. Mitch Mitchell | Retired, General United States Air Force, Beaufort City Councilman
Mr. Richard Moe | Former President, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Mr. Michael Bouleware Moore | Great grandson Congressman Robert Smalls
Dr. J. Brent Morris | Department Chairperson and Professor of History & National Endowment of the Humanities Teachers Institute; Beaufort Reconstruction Institute, University of South Carolina-Beaufort
Hon. Samuel Murray | Former Mayor, Town of Port Royal, South Carolina
Rev. Abraham Murray | Pastor, Brick Baptist Church
Mr. Jeremy Nesoff | Associate Director, Facing History and Ourselves
Dr. C.G. Newsome | Former President, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Mr. Brian O'Donnell | Former Director, Conservation Lands Foundation
Mr. John Parsons | Retired, National Park Service
Dr. Bernard Powers | Professor Emeritus, Center for the Study of Slavery, College of Charleston, Interim CEO and President IAAM
Ms. Anita Singleton-Prather | CEO and Executive Director at Gullah Travelling Theatre, Inc
Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine | Chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation
Ms. Marianne Rice | Musicologist, Storyteller, Author
Mr. Allen Robertson | Executive Director, South Carolina Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum
Ms. Alvesta W. Robertson | Vice President and Librarian, Mather School Alumni Association
Dr. Chris Robinson | Professor of Art, Department Chair, Department Fine Arts, Studio Art, University of South Carolina-Beaufort
Councilman Stu Rodman | Beaufort County Council
Dr. Lawrence Rowland | Professor Emeritus, University of South Carolina-Beaufort
Mr. Bakari Sellers | Attorney and Political Commentator
Dr. Cleveland Sellers | Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina
Mr. Jeff Shawd | President, Beaufort Arts Council
Dr. Marlena Smalls | Founder and Director Hallelujah Singers; Educator
Councilman Paul Sommerville | Vice Chairperson, Beaufort County Council
Ms. Denise Spencer | Former President and CEO, Community Foundation of the Lowcountry
Hon. Lisa Sulka | Mayor, Town of Bluffton, South Carolina
Dr. Althea Sumpter | Independent Scholar
Ms. Lise Sundrla | Historic Beaufort Foundation
Hon. John Tecklenburg | Mayor, City of Charleston, South Carolina
Mr. Dalton Tresvant | Regional Director, Office of Jim Clyburn
Mr. John Wallin | Deputy Director, Conservation Lands Foundation
Mr. Ahmad Ward | Executive Director, Mitchelville Preservation Project
Rev. Elijah Washington | Director, Grand Army Hall of the Republic
Mr. Robb Wells | President and CEO, Beaufort-Port Royal Visitors and Convention Bureau
Mr. Donald West | Director, 54 Massachusetts Colored Troops Reenactors, Trident College
Dr. Eric C. Williams | Curator of Religion, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Dr. Stephen Wise | Museum Curator, Parris island Museum, History Professor
Dr. Jim Wooten | Ret. Pastor, Baptist Church of Beaufort
Ms. Joyce Wright | Chairperson, Mitchelville Preservation Project