The African American Heritage House (AAHH) Welcomes New Program Management Team for the 2022 Season!
Antoinette Golab
New Program Management Team for the 2022 Season!
The African American Heritage House (AAHH) Board is excited to announce its new Program management team for the 2022 season! The Board is thrilled to welcome this dynamic group who will assist in expanding the impact of the AAHH through social media engagement, digital storytelling and strategic planning around a sustainable future. Camille Borders, our Program Manager, along with administrative coordinators, Mariam Keita and Iyanna Hamby will facilitate weekly events including the AAHH Summer Speaker Series and Sunday Porch Chats. Additionally, as Program Manager, Ms. Borders will support the development of 40 Scott Avenue, the new home of AAHH and provide opportunities for members of the community to learn, explore and reconcile with the past through conversation and action. The Program Management team, championed by President Erroll B. Davis, and the entire Board, is excited to serve, learn and grow this summer alongside our diverse community.
Camille "Mimi" Borders (she/her) is a Black feminist historian, writer, and poet. She is a third-year Ph.D. student in the History department at Princeton University studying 19th-century Black women's history. She graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 with a B.A. in History. She continued her education at the University of Oxford where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar receiving an MPhil in US History with distinction (2020). At Princeton, she has coordinated the Black Feminism(s) Reading Group through the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities and has worked as a Special Collections Research Assistant for the Toni Morrison Papers.
Mariam Keita (she/they) is a student at Mount Holyoke College where they are pursuing a double degree in Africana Studies and Media & Migration Studies. There, she serves on the executive board for Mount Holyoke News, the College’s independent, student-run publication since 1917, as Managing Editor of Web. They are a 2020 Ron Brown Scholar, a LEDA Career Fellow, and a member of the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, and the Investigative Reporters & Editors. In the future, she hopes to pursue a career that will allow her to combine her interests in migration, news media, and educational policy.
Iyanna Hamby (she/her) is a fourth-year doctoral student in Theater and Performance Studies at UCLA. Prior to beginning her doctoral studies, Iyanna earned her BA in English with a concentration in Theater Studies from Fisk University and graduated as valedictorian in the class of 2018. Iyanna’s ongoing research investigates black rendered counter-historical projects and embodied practice. Her current research project is titled, Returning to the Vessel: Reembodiment and Imagined Strategies for Resistance and is inspired by performances that reembody the memory of slavery as a means to imagine new ways of living. After obtaining her doctorate Iyanna aspires to enter the academy as a professor of African American Theater.
