Selena Cozart, Community Facilitator, speaks to what a facilitator can do for the dynamics of a process.
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Charlottesville community activist and Religious Studies professor Jalane Schmidt talks about what communities should be aware of when confronting legacies of white supremacy.
Charlottesville Community Historian and member of the Blue Ribbon Commission, Jane Smith speaks to the realities of facing history, encouraging communities to find their truth tellers.
Charlottesville Community Activist and Professor of Religious Studies and Public History, Jalane Schmidt, speaks to the messages the confederate statues in downtown Charlottesville were meant to send.
Guy Lopez, Native Activist and Organizer, speaks to the disparity between the value of “history” as a brand for an institution like the University of Virginia versus its refusal to engage with the legacies of oppression in that history and its contemporary effects on native communities and American Indian people.
Listen to Cauline Yates, a lifelong Charlottesville resident and descendant of Sally Hemmings, speak to the importance of involving descendants and historians in your efforts to (re-)memorialize a space.
See this interview with Jessica Harris, who has been involved with the Transforming Community Spaces Project as well as in the Community Engagement group for the Memorial for Enslaved Laborers speaking about the role students can take in transformation processes