Steering Committee
Dr. Roopika Risam, Consortium Director, Principal Investigator
Dr. Keja Valens, Consortium Associate Director, Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Sonya Donaldson, New Jersey City University Lead, Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Jamila Moore Pewu, California State University, Fullerton Lead, Co-Principal Investigator
Dr. Toniesha Taylor, Texas Southern University Lead, Co-Principal Investigator
Founding Partners
Salem State University
Roopika Risam, Consortium Director, Chair of Secondary and Higher Education and Associate Professor of English and Education
Keja Valens, Consortium Associate Director, Professor of English
Katie Sadowski, Assistant Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations
Sharon Francis, Accounting Manager
New Jersey City University
Sonya Donaldson, NJCU Lead, Associate Professor of English
John Cunningham, Program Manager
William Montgomery, GIS Specialist
Alejandra Martinez, Student Assistant and Black Ecologies Team Leader
California State University, Fullerton
Jamila Moore Pewu, CSUF Lead, Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and New Media in History
Texas Southern University
Toniesha Taylor, TSU Lead, Chair and Associate Professor of Communication
Institutional Partners
We warmly welcome discussions about partnerships with DEFCon. These include but are not limited to professional organizations, labs and centers, libraries, archives, journals, and individuals. While we are currently based in the U.S., we are also interested in international collaboration. We’ll be engaging in partnership development, and we encourage inquiries about collaboration. Please contact Consortium Director Roopika Risam at digitalethnicfutures [at] gmail [dot] com.
University of Texas at Austin
Initiative for Digital Humanities, Humanities Institute
Tanya Clement, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Initiative for Digital Humanities
