Remembrance and Restitution:
A Conversation on Juneteenth, the Tulsa Race Massacre, and Their Legacy in African American History

Join us for a free panel discussion led by scholar Lee Bynum with Ashley Jackson, Ashley Lawrence-Sanders, and Jasmin A. Young. This program is presented in partnership with The Dream Unfinished.

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Lee Bynum, Vice President for Impact, Minnesota Opera, Moderator
Since October 2020, Lee Bynum has served as Vice President of Impact at Minnesota Opera, where he oversees the organization’s learning and training programs, community engagement footprint, and inclusion, diversity, equity, and access initiatives.  Bynum has been active on the boards of The Dream Unfinished Orchestra, Black Feminist Project, TakeRoot Justice, and as the Founding Artistic Director of the Harmony Theatre Company in New York City.  His research on race and ethnicity in classical music, concert dance, and theatre has been published by the university presses of Oxford, Harvard, Columbia, and New York University.  Bynum received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia University.

Ashley Jackson, Assistant Professor of Music, Hunter College, Panelist
Praised for her rhythmic precision and dynamic performances, harpist Dr. Ashley Jackson enjoys a multifaceted career in New York and beyond. She's performed with the New York Philharmonic, Metropolis Ensemble, and is a member of the Harlem Chamber Players. She is the Director of Undergraduate Studies and an Assistant Professor in the Music Department at Hunter College, where she teaches Music History, chamber music, and private lessons. Dr. Jackson recently premiered her first film, In Song and Spirit, and is currently working on her debut solo album.

Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders, Assistant Professor of African American History, University of Dayton, Panelist
Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders is currently an Assistant Professor of African American history at the University of Dayton.  She received her PhD in history from Rutgers University and teaches courses on African American History, Black Women’s History, Civil War Memory and U.S. History. She is currently working on her first book project, They Knew What the War Was About:  African Americans and the Memory of the Civil War which examines American Civil War memory by centering the construction and meaning of Black memory and counter-memory of the war from 1865 until the near-present. This fall, Ashleigh will begin as an assistant professor in the Department of History at the University of Colorado.

Jasmin A. Young, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside, Panelist
Jasmin A. Young is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies. She is currently developing her manuscript, Black Women with Guns: Armed Resistance in the Black Freedom Struggle. Selections from her manuscript have been presented at several academic meetings, including the National Council of Black Studies, the Association for the Study of African American Life and History, the American Historical Association, and the American Studies Association. She holds a B.A. in Africana Studies from California State University, Northridge, an M.A. in African American Studies from Columbia University, an M.Sc. in Gender Studies from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Ph.D. in History from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in 2018.