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Lotte Lieb Dula
Lotte Lieb Dula is the founder of Reparations4slavery.com, and is also a member of Reparations Circle Denver.
Briayna Cuffie
Briayna Cuffie is the equity advisor for the R4S portal. She serves as a strategist, political advocate, and civil servant specializing in international relations from Annapolis, MD.
Tamara Rhone
Tamara Rhone is an educator and contributor to the R4S portal. She serves on the board of Denver Black Reparations Council.
Asia Dorsey
Asia Dorsey is the host of the R4S podcast Healing Black Futures. She researched and created the basis for the Modern Vectors of Economic Transformation learning series.
Allison Thomas and Maria Sharp Montgomery
Maria and Allison are linked by enslavement. Allison's ancestors enslaved Maria's on Gwynn's Island, in eastern Virginia's Mathews County. Together, they have researched the history of the black families who were enslaved on Gwynn's Island and those who returned in 1870.
Randy Quarterman and Sarah Eisner
Sarah Eisner’s family is linked to Randy Quarterman’s family through slavery. Together, they founded the Quarterman & Keller Foundation and The Reparations Project.
Kathryn White
“When you’ve studied history—when you’ve begun to understand how racism has operated in this country over generations—it becomes imperative to stand your own family story up against the backdrop of what you’ve learned..." - Kathryn White
Saira Rao & Joy Benenson
Artist Joy Benenson, founder of Giving Artist. and Saira Rao, founder of Haven Media.
FRED SMALL
Rev. Fred Small is a Unitarian Universalist minister and climate justice activist living in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
FELICIA FURMAN
Felicia Furman, filmmaker, has a history of enslavement on both sides of her family. In 2001, she chronicled the story of her family’s centuries-long relationship with the people her ancestors enslaved in the PBS documentary Shared History.
DANITA ROUNTREE GREEN
Danita Rountree Green, M.A., TLSC (R. Satiafa) is an author, playwright and trauma healing facilitator, conducting workshops addressing various forms of community trauma and race related issues in Richmond, VA.
NORMA JOHNSON
Norma Johnson is a poet, storyteller, racial justice advocate and facilitator in Boulder, CO. Norma incorporates poetry and performance art into her racial justice work. Her deeply moving poem, “For My White Friends” has been featured in many racial justice courses.
HOLLY FULTON
Holly Fulton is a racial justice advocate and facilitator in Denver, CO. In 2001, Holly travelled with her cousins to document her DeWolf ancestors’ role in the Atlantic Slave Trade. The result was the film, Traces of the Trade.
Rusty Vaughan
Rusty Vaughan, racial justice activist, serves on Coming To The Table’s board of managers and has been actively involved in anti-racism efforts in the Mid-Atlantic States, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado with primary focus in Annapolis, and Albuquerque.
Rev. Dr. Dawn Riley Duval
Reverend Dr. Dawn Riley Duval is s a social justice advocate and community organizer. She is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Denver Chapter, as well as a co-founder of Soul 2 Soul Sisters – a fiercely faith-based, Black-Womxn-led racial justice non-profit organization in Denver, CO.
David Ragland
David Ragland, PhD, David is founder of the Grassroots Reparations Campaign, Co-Founder and Co-Director for the Truth Telling Project of Ferguson, and is a Visiting Professor at Pacifica Graduate Institute. David co-hosts the “We Stay Woke” podcast, is a blogger for the Huffington Post and writes frequently for PeaceVoice, and Yes.
Didi Smith
Didi Smith is a Modmin for the Facebook reparations site Reparations Requests and Offerings, a site founded by artist Natasha Marin, with more than 15,000 members. She has been a member since 2017 and now works as part of RRO’s 5-person administration team.
K. Melchor Quick Hall
K. Melchor Quick Hall is the author of Naming a Transnational Black Feminist Framework: Writing in Darkness. She led a Quaker-based reparations workshop, Aiming for Justice: Race Reparations and Right Paths, which provided a brave space where US-based, white inheritors of wealth enacted partial and imperfect race-based redistributive justice.
David Gardinier
David Gardinier is a founding member of The Fund for Reparations NOW! (FFRN!) FFRN! was launched in 2019 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in Jamestown, Virginia, and to imagine the future America in which reparations are a reality and deeper racial healing is possible.
David Alley
David Alley is a retired small business owner living in Denver, CO. He is co-founder of the Fund for Reparations Affinity Group at the Denver Foundation.