Sharon 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 historical trauma of slavery.

She is 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); 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).

 

CONTACT: smorgan@ourblackancestry.com

 

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Vincent Scott Morgan is 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.

CONTACT: vmorgan@ourblackancestry.com

 

 

 

 

 

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. She maintains an OBA sponsored website hairstonfamilygenealogy.com/.

CONTACT: djroman@ourblackancestry.com