Julieanna
Richardson
Public Historian and Founder/Executive Director of The HistoryMakers has a unique and diverse background in theatre, television production and the cable television industry. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Brandeis University, where she double-majored in Theatre Arts and American Studies. After conducting oral histories on the Harlem Renaissance and Langston Hughes, Richardson attended Harvard Law School. After graduation, she worked as a corporate lawyer, prior to serving in the early 1980's as the Cable Administrator for the City of Chicago Office of Cable Communications. There, she established the Chicago Cable Commission, the City's regulatory body. She went on to found Shop Chicago, a regionally based home shopping channel. For eight years, her production company, SCTN Teleproductions, managed three local cable channels for TCI, the nation's largest cable operator, at that time. She was driven to start The HistoryMakers out of a strong desire to make a difference and to leave a living legacy. Currently, Richardson serves on the Board of Directors of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, The HistoryMakers and the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau.
Amy
Billingsley
Regional Coordinator Washington D.C. / Mid-Atlantic Region:
Descended from generations of civil rights activists, Billingsley earned her B.A. degree from the University of Chicago and her M.A. degree from the Ohio State University. While living in Berkeley, California, she was active in the political arena, supporting a number of candidates, including Congressman Ron Dellums. Billingsley later moved to Washington, D.C. and formed her own consulting company, and later co-founded Black Women’s Agenda, Inc. before serving as a consultant in the Clinton White House and serving as special assistant to Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman. Billingsley later returned to consulting, forming Amistad Associates before joining The HistoryMakers.
Frederick Adams
Webmaster/Production Manager: joined The HistoryMakers in May of 2004 as an intern/volunteer before being brought on full-time as an archival assistant. Adams took over the content management for The HistoryMakers’ website in the summer of 2005. He became production manager in January of 2006. Adams earned his B.S. degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001.
Larry Crowe
Producer/Interviewer:
has been steeped in African American arts and culture, and the humanities for over 30 years. With an undergraduate degree in history from Wright State University, he has held a variety of positions including theater manager; assistant editor for Third World Press, the largest black publisher in the United States; and manager of an African American bookstore. In his current position, he interviews HistoryMakers and completes research. As of July 2009, Crowe has conducted around 900 interviews for The HistoryMakers’ project.
Matthew
Hickey
Videographer: is very proud to have been a videographer for The HistoryMakers from the start. A twenty-five-year industry veteran, Matthew Hickey produces, directs, edits, and shoots for video, still photography and feature films. His production experience includes live events, talk shows, travel shows, corporate training, documentaries and drama. His work has appeared on WTTW, C-SPAN, Fox Sports, The International Channel, ESPN, and many other broadcast and cable TV outlets. Hickey was formerly Production Manager for SCTN Teleproductions, The HistoryMakers, Take 1 Video Productions and the Athenaeum Theatre.
Scott Stearns
Videographer: has over twenty-five years of experience in the video production and multimedia industries. After attending the University of Denver, he went on to pursue a career in the production industry. Stearns served as Director of Production for over three years and played a key role in developing the Interviewer and Videographer Guidelines. Prior to joining The HistoryMakers, he ran his own video production and rental facility.
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