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. Thomas Barnwell, Jr. | Beaufort County Business Leader

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

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 

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 | Professor of Strategic Communication; U.S. CEO at LLORENTE & CUENCA

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 | Executive Director, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor 

Rev. Kenneth F. Hodges | Pastor, Tabernacle Baptist Church; former Representative SC House of Representatives

Mr. Larry Holman | President, Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce

Ms. Barbara G. Holmes | Director, Land Protection, Beaufort County Open Land Trust

Ms. Carole Ingraham | 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 | Mayor, City of Beaufort, South Carolina

Ms. Kaylan Koszela | Director of Community Outreach, Office of Congressman Joe Cunningham

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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

Ms. Lisa Lill | Public Affairs Officer, US Naval Hospital, Beaufort

Dr. Dan Littlefield | Professor of History, University of South Carolina; Author of Publications on Reconstruction Era and Slavery

Dr. Val Littlefield | Professor, History and African American Studies, University of South Carolina

Ms. Maxine Lutz | 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

Mr. Richard Moe | Former President, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Mr. Michael Bouleware Moore | President and CEO, International African American Museum

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 

Ms. Megan Morris | Executive Director, Santa Elena History Center

Hon. Samuel Murray | 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

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 | Visiting Professor of Art, Department Chair, Department Fine Arts, Studio Art, University of South Carolina-Beaufort

Councilman Stu Rodman | Chairperson, 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

Ms. Althea Sumpter | Commissioner, Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor Commission

Ms. Lise Sundrla | Executive Director, Beaufort Area Hospitality Association

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

Dr. Jim Wooten | Pastor, Baptist Church of Beaufort

Ms. Joyce Wright | Chairperson, Mitchelville Preservation Project