Steering Committee
Roopika Risam, Consortium Director, Principal Investigator
Keja Valens, Consortium Associate Director, Co-Principal Investigator
Sonya Donaldson, New Jersey City University, Co-Principal Investigator (2021-2022)
Jennifer Musial, New Jersey City University, Co-Principal Investigator (2022-present)
Jamila Moore Pewu, California State University, Fullerton Lead, Co-Principal Investigator
Toniesha Taylor, Texas Southern University Lead, Co-Principal Investigator
Caroline Wilkinson, New Jersey City University, Co-Principal Investigator (2022-present)
Events Committee
Marina del Sol, Howard University
Ritu Khanduri, University of Texas at Arlington
Tynesha McCullers, North Carolina State University
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
Current
Caroline Wilkinson, NJCU Co-lead
Jennifer Musial, NJCU Co-lead
Al Valentín, Postdoctoral Researcher
Virginia Ochoa-Winemiller, GIS Specialist
Alejandra Martinez, Student Assistant and Black Ecologies Team Leader
Former
Sonya Donaldson, NJCU Lead, Associate Professor of English
John Cunningham, Program Manager
William Montgomery, GIS Specialist
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.
Dartmouth College
Digital Ethnic Futures Lab, Digital Humanities and Social Engagement Cluster
Roopika Risam, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies and of Comparative Literature
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
