Shannon Hunt-Scott, Paula Pretlow, Susie Richardson, and Facing History and Ourselves invite you to a personal conversation about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and why it matters today, with Dr. Kendra Taira Field and Dr. Karlos Hill, and moderated by Paula Pretlow.
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Dr. Kendra Taira FieldDr. Kendra Taira Field is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at Tufts University. Field’s first book, Growing Up with the Country: Family, Race, and Nation after the Civil War (2018), traced her own ancestors’ migratory lives in the black towns of Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Her current project, The Stories We Tell, traces the African American genealogical quest over four centuries. Previously, she abridged David Levering Lewis' W.E.B. Du Bois: A Biography (2009). Field co-directs the African American Trail Project and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Western Writers of America's, 2017 Spur Award for Best Western Short Nonfiction. Field received her Ph.D. in American History from NYU, Master's in Public Policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and B.A. from Williams College.
Dr. Karlos K. HillDr. Hill is a community-engaged scholar, teacher, and leader committed to interrogating difficult racial histories and their present day implications. He is the author of three groundbreaking books: Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory, 2016; The Murder of Emmett Till: A Graphic History, 2020; and The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History, 2021. Dr. Hill is a board member for the Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission, the Clara Luper Legacy Committee, and the Board of Scholars for Facing History and Ourselves. In 2017, Dr. Hill founded the Tulsa Race Massacre Oklahoma Teachers Summer Institute to inspire educators to teach the history of the 1921 Race Massacre in innovative and historically accurate ways. Several hundred Oklahoma educators have participated in the summer institute, impacting thousands of middle school and high school students in Oklahoma. Dr. Hill also co-curated the current OU Libraries exhibit “From Tragedy to Triumph: Race Massacre Survivor Stories” to raise awareness about the race massacre within the OU community. Dr. Hill serves OU as Chair and Associate Professor of the Clara Luper Department of African and African-American Studies at OU. His commitment to OU has been recognized with several recent awards, including a Presidential Dream Course Award for his course on the Tulsa Race Massacre (Spring 2021) and the 2019 Engaged Scholars Fellowship from Campus Compact of the Midwest.
Paula PretlowPaula Pretlow is an Oklahoma native, whose roots run very deeply in its soil…She is a former senior vice president of The Capital Group, a $2.1 trillion privately held investment management firm. While there, she headed the firm’s public fund business development and client relationship group and was also responsible for large client relationships. These days, Ms. Pretlow is passionately involved on nonprofit and foundation boards, including The Kresge Foundation; The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation; Northwestern University, her alma mater; and her synagogue, Congregation Emanu-El, in San Francisco. In the private sector, she serves as an independent trustee on the board of an investment fund and is a director of Bitwise Industries. Ms. Pretlow has been recognized with The Women’s Legal Defense & Education Fund’s Aiming High Award, The Foundation for Oklahoma City Public Schools’ Wall of Fame Humanitarian Award, and the National Council of Jewish Women’s Outstanding Humanitarian Award. A frequent speaker on leadership and diversity, appearances include Northwestern’s Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences convocation and Groundbreakers: Women in Leadership Summit, where she shared the stage with Gloria Steinem and Ali Wentworth.
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