Scott Adams

Advisory Board

Rev. Scott Hamilton Adams serves as the Assistant Director of Interfaith and Ecumenical Ministries at Loyola University, Maryland. He leads the university’s interfaith initiatives towards cultivating safe and empowering spaces of faith, educating the community around religious diversity, and providing co-curricular experiences that complement and contextualize Loyola’s Jesuit education. Additionally, he serves as a liaison between the university and faith communities/organizations in greater Baltimore.

Savoy Adams

Advisory Board

Savoy is a first-generation college student who is a rising Sophomore in the Class of 2023 and a Sociology major. He is from Baltimore City - BMORE where you see more. Savoy is passionate about his city, the people and being apart of the changes happening throughout the city. He is involved on campus with multiple clubs and organizations. Fun fact: he plays Squash.

marie M. anderson

Advisory Board

Marie is the Assistant Director of Loyola’s York Road Initiative and works in community organizing, volunteer coordination and management, community history research and storytelling, creating sustainable access to affordable produce, advocacy and education.

Donna Blackwell

Advisory Board, Community Representative

Allen Brizee

PrincipAl Investigator, Project Director

Dr. Brizee is an Associate Professor of Writing in the Writing Department at Loyola University Maryland. Using civic engagement, he teaches first-year writing, rhetoric, web writing, and technical writing. He also publishes on issues of social justice.

As Faculty Director for Community-Engaged Learning and Scholarship in Loyola’s Center for Community Service and Justice, Dr. Brizee works with community members, students, staff, and faculty members to bring about positive change in Baltimore. Dr. Brizee is principle investigator and project director for Govans Heritage and Community Action.

Stephanie Hurter Brizee

Web Designer, Historical Consultant

Dr. Hurter Brizee has a masters in digital humanities and a doctorate in American history. For her doctorate, she specialized in the development of democracy in the early Republic. She is the Director of Planned Giving at Loyola University Maryland.

Dr. Hurter Brizee is the web designer and historical consultant on the Govans Heritage project.

Raenita fenner

Advisory Board

Dr. Fenner is an Assistant Professor of Engineering specializing in electrical engineering at Loyola. She is also the Director of the African and African American Studies Interdisciplinary Minor. Her research interests include electromagnetic materials characterization, reconfigurable antenna design, and innovations in engineering education.

Stephanie flores-koulish

Advisory Board, Education Lead Consultant

Stephanie Flores-Koulish is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction for Social Justice. Her primary area of expertise and research has been within the field of Critical Media Literacy Education. She also has conducted research interests on identity and adoptees, education policy, creativity, spirituality, and critical multicultural education.

Her research provides her with many opportunities to practice engaged scholarship in and around Baltimore City. She serves on the board at Archbishop Borders dual language Catholic school. Flores-Koulish is also an alumna and mentor of the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers (IRT).

jenny kinniff

Advisory Board

Jenny Kinniff is the Head of Archives and Special Collections at Loyola Notre Dame Library. She acquires, preserves, and provides access to unique and distinctive collections including the university archives of Loyola University Maryland and Notre Dame of Maryland University, manuscript materials, and rare books. She works with faculty and students to facilitate the use of primary sources and digital scholarship in their research, teaching, and learning. Jenny is committed to making archival collections accessible to all researchers and representative of our diverse society.

Emily Manzo

Govans Heritage Project Intern, Fall 2020

Emily Manzo is a senior English major with a Writing minor at Loyola University of Maryland. She is beginning her Master of Arts in Teaching in the spring semester. Emily has worked with the Center for Community Service and Justice for many different projects throughout her years at Loyola and, as a part of the Evergreen program, works to help first years acclimate to Loyola.

Emily is passionate about bringing social justice into the classroom and empowering young people to be the change they wish to see in the communities they are a part of. 

Cheryl moore-thomas

Advisory Board

Dr. Moore-Thomas is a Professor of Education and the Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer at Loyola. She also serves as a member of the President’s Cabinet and leads the President’s Council on Equity and Inclusion. She works to address challenges around racism and diversity issues to help Loyola become a welcoming, inclusive Jesuit, Catholic university.

In the field of education, Dr. Moore-Thomas has research interests in multicultural counseling competence, cultural identity development, college access counseling and accountability in school counseling programs.

Tom Pegram

History Reviewer

Dr. Pegram is a Professor of History at Loyola. Specializing in the interaction of social movements and American political institutions in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Dr. Pegram has written books on state-level progressive politics, the history of American temperance and Prohibition, and the 1920s Ku Klux Klan. He is currently working on prohibition enforcement at the state level as a window into American federalism and state-building in the early twentieth century.

Dr. Pegram serves as history reviewer for the Govans Heritage project.

Allison Seyler

Advisory Board and Baltimore City HistorIcal Society Liason

Allison Seyler, an archivist and public historian currently works as the Hopkins Retrospective Program Manager at Johns Hopkins University. Her research both as a graduate student at UMBC and archivist on the Legacy of Slavery team at the Maryland State Archives, has been rooted in exploring how historians can illuminate ordinary peoples’ experiences using archival records. She investigates how we make these stories relevant and accessible to public audiences, while directly confronting issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion. A city resident and BARCS volunteer, Allison has also served on the board of the Baltimore City Historical Society since 2018.

h. lovell smith

Advisory Board

Dr. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Loyola. His publications include articles in such journals as Research in Community Sociology, Advances in Medical Sociology, and Journal of Black Studies.

raven williams

Advisory Board

Raven Williams is the Director of ALANA (African, Latinx, Asian and Native American) Services at Loyola.  Her work in higher education has been focused on student retention, academic advising and intervention, staff and student training and development, cultural competency, and diversity/equity/ inclusion awareness. As the Director of ALANA Services, she oversees the retention and support services for students of color and other underrepresented students, as well as supervision of the ALANA staff.

Student Contributors

Fall 2019:

David Traugott, Maggie Haley, Marykatherine Clark, Matt Jakab

Spring 2020:

Vanessa Cuppari, Valerie Greisman, Anthony Muentes, Ema Joanne-Brauchler