Join Alissa Rae Funderburk, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation oral historian for the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University for this talk in A Movement in Every Direction. In this special program, Funderburk will reflect on Robert Pruitt’s A Song of Travelers (2022) and Larry Cook’s Let My Testimony Sit Next To Yours 2022), as she shares more about the role of oral history and storytelling.
Free with exhibition admission.
Alissa Rae Funderburk is the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Oral Historian for the Margaret Walker Center at the HBCU Jackson State University. She maintains an oral history archive dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of African American history and culture. Previously, she taught an oral history course for the Roger Lehecka Double Discovery Center and conducted freelance interviews for Jersey City. While completing her MA thesis on the religious and spiritual experiences of Black men in NYC at Columbia University, Alissa Rae served as Deputy Director of the Columbia Life Histories Project. For more visit alissaraefunderburk.com.
