The HistoryMakers 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute on African American Political History
Staff
Julieanna Richardson (Co-Project Director), Founder and Executive Director, The HistoryMakers
Julieanna Richardson has a diverse background in corporate law, television production and cable television. A graduate of Brandeis University (Theatre Arts and American Studies) and Harvard Law School, she worked as a corporate lawyer prior to serving in the early 1980s as the Cable Administrator for the City of Chicago's 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 TV home shopping channel. Then, for eight years, her production company, SCTN Teleproductions, managed three local cable channels for TCI, the nation's largest cable operator. Currently, Julieanna Richardson serves on the Board of Directors of Lawyers for the Creative Arts, the Nature Museum, Chicago Dramatists Workshop and the Chicago Convention and Tourism Bureau.
Ms. Ashley Howard (Co-Project Director), PhD,
A graduate Fellow for The HistoryMakers organization, Howard is pursuing her doctorate degree in African-American history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her B.A. degree from DePaul University in International Studies in 2003 and her M.A. degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha where she completed her Master’s thesis entitled, “Then the Burning Began: Omaha, Riots, and the Growth of Black Radicalism.” She has presented at numerous national conferences and was honored with awards for Outstanding Service to the Department of African American Studies and second place, in the Elton S. Carter Excellence in a Thesis prize competition. She has served on the Graduate College Fellowship board and the Executive Committee for the Race, Rupture and Repression Conference. Her research interests include urban rebellions, the Midwestern Black Freedom Movement, and history of violence.
Ms. Jessica Levy, Project Staff/Researcher, The HistoryMakers
Jessica Levy is project staff/researcher at The HistoryMakers. She received her B.A. degree from Emory University in History in 2008 and her M.A. degree from The University of Chicago where she completed her Master's thesis entitled, "'The City Too Busy Growing To Hate': Urban Development, White and Black Elites, and the Civil Rights Legacy in Atlanta, 1960-1996."
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