The People Behind the Portal
Sharon Leslie Morgan is the Founder of Our Black Ancestry. She is a genealogist, writer and multicultural marketing expert who has served as a consultant to the
Afro-American Historical & Genealogical Society (AAHGS) and is a founding member of
Afrigeneas. Her memberships include the
National Genealogical Society (NGS) and local societies in areas of her family research. She writes guest blogs for
NGS,
Geni,
FamilySearch and others. Morgan has taken
STAR (Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience) training at Eastern Mennonite University and is actively involved with
Coming to the Table, an organization that promotes linkages between descendants of enslaved people and the families that enslaved them for the purpose of healing from the trauma of slavery. Sharon is the co-author of
Gather at the Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a Son of the Slave Trade (Beacon Press, 2012). She is the author of
Finding Your Family Tree: A Beginner's Guide to Researching Your Genealogy (Wellfleet Press, 2023) and a contributor to
Slavery’s Descendants: Shared Legacies of Race & Reconciliation (Rutgers University Press, 2019) and
The Little Book of Racial Healing: Coming to the Table for Truth-Telling, Liberation, and Transformation (Good Books, 2019).
Vincent Scott Morgan is vice-president of the OBA Foundation. He is the son of OBA founder Sharon Leslie Morgan. His mission is to ensure that OBA continues into the future.
Diana Roman is Chief Marketing Officer of the OBA Foundation. She is a descendant of the Hairston family, one of the largest slaveholding dynasties in American history. Dedicated to "making things right", she works avidly to address historical harms and maintains an OBA sponsored website
https://www.hairstonfamilygenealogy.com/.
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