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D’Angelo Bridges is a Ph.D. student in the English and African American Studies Departments at Pennsylvania State University. He studies African American rhetoric, literature, culture, and identity. He is a part of the Zooniverse Development Team and the Outreach, Community and Academic Partnerships committees for Douglass Day 2020.

Denise Burgher is an English Ph.D. student at the University of Delaware, chair of the Historic Churches and Community Engagement Committee and co-chair or the Curriculum Committee for the Colored Conventions Project. Denise was part of the founding team and served as chair for Douglass Day 2019.

Jim Casey is a Perkins Fellow at the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities. Next, he will move to Pennsylvania State University to be an assistant professor of African American Studies, History, and English along with the managing director of the Center for Black Digital Research. He co-directs the Colored Conventions Project and Douglass Day.

Sabrina Evans is a first-year dual title Ph.D. student in English Literature and African American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century African American literature, specifically engaging with African American print culture and the Black Digital Humanities. She is the Project Manager for Douglass Day 2020 -Transcribe Cooper.

Dr. Heather Froehlich is the Literary Informatics Librarian at the rank of Assistant Professor at Penn State University (University Park, PA, USA). She has expertise in the afterlives of transcription data, including in corpus analysis, stylistics, and quantitative text analysis more generally.

Julia Grummitt is a Ph.D. candidate in the History department at Princeton University, where her research focuses on histories of slavery and settler-colonialism. She is a University Administrative Fellow in Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities, and part of the Douglass Day team responsible for project management, programming, outreach and communications.

Dr. Lopez Matthews is the Manager of the Digital Production Center and Digital Production Librarian for the Howard University Libraries and the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. He led the team at the Moorland-Spingarn in creating the Anna Julia Cooper Digital Collection. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Coppin State University where he teaches courses covering United States, African American, African and World History.

Elena M’Bouroukounda is a student in the Master’s in Architecture program at Princeton University. She is a University Administrative Fellow in Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities, and part of the Douglass Day team responsible for project management, programming, outreach, and communications.

Wendyliz Martinez is a second- year MA student in the English department at The Pennsylvania State University. Her current research interests are in black community formation on social media, afro-futurism and its iterations on digital spaces, and Caribbean literature. She is on the Social Media team for Douglass Day 2020.

Shirley Moody-Turner is an associate professor of English and African American Studies at Penn State University where her work focuses on the race and gender politics of literary production and how digital methods can support efforts to reconstruct black women’s literary, organizing, and intellectual histories. She founded the Anna Julia Cooper Digital Project and is a co-organizer, with project director Jim Casey, of Douglass Day 2020 - Transcribe Cooper.

Courtney Murray is a first-year MA student in the English department at The Pennsylvania State University. Currently, her research interests involve African American Literature and Culture with specific interests in literary lineages, cultural phenomena, and archives. She is a member of the Zooniverse Development Team for Douglass Day 2020.

Justin Smith is a first-year dual-Ph.D. student in English Literature and African American Studies at The Pennsylvania State University, with a focus is on political identity and solidarity in early twentieth-century African American literature. He is the Zooniverse team project leader for Douglass Day 2020.

Eunice Toh is a second-year M.A. student in the English department at Penn State. Her research focuses on late nineteenth-century American literature, with specific interests in material culture, black geographies, and critical race theory. She is the Outreach, Community, and Academic Partnerships co-chair with Racine Amos for Douglass Day 2020.

Christopher D.E. Willoughby (PhD, History, Tulane University) is a Junior Visiting Fellow in the Center for Humanities and Information at Penn State University. His work examines the coevolution of Atlantic slavery, white supremacy, and the medical profession in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For Douglass Day 2020, he is a part of the Zooniverse Development Team.

Adrena Ifill is CEO of Ifill/DoubleBack Global Group, a firm that specializes in cultural heritage management. With over 25 years of experience in event production, strategic planning and documentary video, Ms. Ifill has worked with many corporations, nonprofits and government entities. An award-winning filmmaker, she has written and directed several historical films that have shown internationally. A graduate of Williams College, Howard University and George Washington University, Ms. Ifill will join the incoming cohort of AADHum Scholars at the University of Maryland for 2019-2020.

Racine Amos is the Engagement and Equity Librarian at the rank of Assistant Professor at Penn State University (University Park, PA, USA). In this role, she is focused on working with campus and community partners to foster University Libraries efforts to create inclusive, equitable, and accessible environments for current and potential users. Her professional interests include inclusive archival practices, "whole-person" librarianship and social work practice in academic libraries, African-American history, black feminism and genealogy. Racine will service as on-site event coordinator for Penn State University Libraries during Douglass Day 2020.