COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Catherine Allgor
President, Massachusetts Historical Society
Martin Blatt
Civil War Historian; Professor, Northeastern University
David Blight
Professor of American History, Yale University; Director, Gilder Lehman Center
Andrea Campbell
Former Boston City Council President
Colin "Topper" Carew
Director, Code Next; Visiting Scholar, MIT
Drew Faust
Civil War Historian and President Emerita, Harvard University
Bernie Fulp
President, GoBiz, Inc.
Carol Fulp
Chief Executive Officer of Fulp Diversity LLC
Henry Louis Gates
Professor & Director, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University
David Hencke
U.S. Army (Ret.) Executive Officer, 54th Mass Volunteer Regiment
Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University & Chair, Department of History, Harvard University
Karen Holmes Ward
Director of Public Affairs and Community Services WCVB-TV
Paula Johnson
President, Wellesley College
Rick Kendall
Superintendent, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
Ted Landsmark
Professor and Director of Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, Northeastern University
Cheryl LaRoche
Department of American Studies, University of Maryland
Henry Lee
President Emeritus, Friends of the Public Garden
Brent Leggs
Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, National Trust for Historic Places
David McCullough
Pulitzer Prize Recipient; Historian, Author, Narrator
Frank Moran
Representative and Chair, Massachusetts Black and Latino Political Caucus
Beverly Morgan-Welch
Associate Director, Board Relations and Special Initiatives, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Lee Pelton
CEO & President, The Boston Foundation
Colette Phillips
President & CEO, Colette Phillips Communications
Harold I. Pratt,
Founder and Partner, Nichols and Pratt, LLP.
Byron Rushing
Former Massachusetts State Representative
Sarah-Ann Shaw
Retired WBZ-TV Reporter
Frank Smith
Founding Director, African American Civil War Museum
John Stauffer
Professor of English and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
Steve Tompkins
Suffolk County Sheriff
Col. Dana Sanders-Udo
Commander, 54th Mass Volunteer Regiment and Chief of Diversity and Inclusion, Massachusetts Army National Guard.
Graduate of US Army War College and combat Veteran.
Liz Walker
Retired Pastor, Roxbury Presbyterian Church
Edith Walker
Descendant of John J. Smith, famed abolitionist and Massachusetts State Representative
Benny White
President, 54th Massachusetts Regiment, Company A
Linda Whitlock
Founder and Principal, The Whitlock Group
Mary Minturn Wood
Shaw descendant who donated Shaw's sword to the Massachusetts Historical Society
Robert B Minturn
Shaw descendant who donated Shaw's sword to the Massachusetts Historical Society
