Afua Ferdnance received her Bachelor of Arts degree
in History, focusing on American studies from Connecticut College in 2012.
After graduation, she worked as a library assistant at Richmond Public Library
before entering graduate school at North Carolina Central University (NCCU). At
NCCU, Afua obtained an MLS with a focus on Archives and Records Management.
Always one to combine her interest in African American history and culture with
the archive profession, Afua volunteered, interned, and worked on African
American collections at various special collection and archive institutions.
While an undergraduate, she interned at Henrico Preservation and Museum
services where she assisted curators with processing archive materials for the
Virginia Randolph museum. Once in graduate school, she processed collections at
the NCCU archives and worked on a city government funded project in order to
collect and preserve archives found within Durham city public schools. At
present, she is working as a Visiting Archivist for African American
collections at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and
is part of a committee called the “History keepers” whose aim is to expose undergraduate
African American, and other students of color to various careers found in
libraries, museums and other special collection institutions.
Charmaine Bonner attended Grambling State University, where she graduated with
a B.S. degree in Early Childhood Education in 2013. She went on to earn her
Masters of Library Science degree from North Carolina Central University in
2016, with a concentration in Archives and Records Management. From 2014 to 2015, Bonner served as a
graduate assistant in North Carolina Central University’s School of Library and
Information Science library. Bonner then served as the 2015-2016 Franklin
Research Center SNCC Collections intern in Duke University’s David M.
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She worked with the SNCC Digital
Gateway Project, a three-year Mellon Foundation funded initiative charged with
creating a permanent digital home for the legacy of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee.
Jehan Sinclair attended New College of Florida, where she graduated with a B.L.A.
degree in Anthropology in 2013, concentrating in Cultural Anthropology and
Archaeology. She went on to earn her Masters of Library and Information Science
degree from Simmons College in 2016, with a concentration in Archives
Management. Sinclair’s work experience includes serving as Cultural Resources
and Park Planning intern for the Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site in
Elverson, Pennsylvania; Small Collections Processing intern for Emerson College
Archives in Boston, Massachusetts; Discovery Services Graduate Worker for Simmons
College’s Beatley Library; Acquisitions, Cataloging and Scanning Assistant at
the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study; and most
recently as a Digital Exhibits intern for the Simmons College Archives.
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