Join us for a panel and Q&A to celebrate the launch of our new virtual tour of Gallier House, Shifting Landscapes: Slavery and the Built Environment! Featuring members of the museum staff and board along with project collaborators, this virtual program will showcase the tour’s unique features and possibilities for use in the classroom. Alongside the HGGHH Director of Educational Programming and Project Director Dr. Amy Katherine Medvick, Curator Katie Burlison, and Board Member and Education Committee Chair Dr. Angel Parham, the panel will feature: Gaynell Brady, Owner and Educator, Our Mammy’s, LLC. Gaynell Brady advocates for the preservation of Louisiana’s African American history and culture through her work as a historical interpreter. Since 2013, as Owner and Educator of Our Mammy’s, LLC, she has led public programs exploring family history through the stories of her ancestors. Her past professional experience includes work with the National WWII Museum, the National Park Service’s Jean Lafitte National Historical Park & Preserve, the New Orleans Jazz Historical Park, and the Louisiana State Museum. Gaynell holds a Bachelor of Arts in History and a Master of Arts in Museum Studies from Southern University at New Orleans. Dr. Walter D. Greason, DeWitt Wallace Professor of History, Department of History, Macalester College. Walter Greason, Ph.D., DeWitt Wallace Professor in the Department of History at Macalester College is the preeminent historian of Afrofuturism, the Black Speculative Arts, and digital economies in the world today. His work as a viral engagement coordinator for the Shifting Landscapes virtual tour with HGGHH expanded the project's public and scholarly impact. Dr. Leslie M. Harris, Professor of History and Black Studies, Department of History, Northwestern University. Leslie M. Harris is Professor of History and Black Studies at Northwestern University. She has authored or co-edited five books and participated in a number of public history projects, including the award-winning Slavery in New York exhibition (2005-2007) at the New-York Historical Society, and the accompanying book (with Ira Berlin); and the re-interpretation of the urban slave quarters at Telfair Museum’s Owens-Thomas House in Savannah, Georgia, which included the edited volume Slavery and Freedom in Savannah (2013, with Daina Ramey Berry). Harris is currently completing Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History, a book that combines memoir with family, urban and environmental histories to explore the multiple meanings of New Orleans from its founding through its uncertain future amid climate change. Mr. Leon A. Waters, Historian, Publisher, Social Activist, and Manager of Hidden History LLC. Mr. Leon August Waters is a New Orleans native, historian, publisher and social activist. Mr. Waters serves as the board chairperson of the Louisiana Museum of African American History. As a licensed tour host, where he directs tours on ‘hidden history’, Mr. Waters is also the manager of Hidden History, L.C.C. – a publishing, touring, and research company. He has published the book On To New Orleans: Louisiana’s Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt, documenting the story of the largest slave revolt in the United States that happened in St. John the Baptist, St. Charles, and Orleans Parishes.