PUBLICK OCCURRENCES — April 6, 2022

Kyera Singleton to give keynote at 2022 Mass History Conference

The Massachusetts History Alliance is pleased to announce that Kyera Singleton, Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, will give the keynote address at the 17th Annual Mass History Conference taking place on June 6 and 7, 2022. The conference will be held in person and online.

In addition to serving as Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters, Kyera Singleton is a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the Department of American Culture. For the 2021-2022 academic year, she is also an American Democracy Fellow in the Charles Warren Center, at Harvard University. Kyera has held prestigious academic fellowships from the Beinecke Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

From 2018 through 2019, Kyera served as the Humanity in Action Policy Fellow for the ACLU of Georgia. As a policy fellow, she focused on mass incarceration, reproductive justice, and voting rights. She created the ACLU-GA’s first podcast series “Examining Justice” in order to highlight the voices of both community activists and policy makers in the fight for racial, gender, and transformative justice.

As a public history scholar, Kyera recently served as an advisor on the Boston Art Commission’s Recontextualization Subcommittee for the bronze Emancipation Group Statue. She is also a member of the Board of Public Humanities Fellows at Brown University, which brings together a collection of museum leaders from Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. 

 

Save the date! Join us June 6 (in person) and June 7 (online) for two days of learning, listening, and networking at the 2022 Mass History Conference: Embracing the New or Unexpected. Learn more…