Speakers
- Dionti Davis
- Director of Education, The HistoryMakers
Dionti Davis graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014 with his B.A. degree in History, and a minor in African American Studies. He has worked for the last five years at The HistoryMakers, the nation’s largest African American video oral history archive in a number of positions, ranging from researcher, writer, special assistant to the executive director, to his most recent position – director of education. During his time at The HistoryMakers, Dionti presented at academic and scholarly conferences nationwide, served as associate producer of an annual live-to-tape PBS-TV interview series, wrote a number of grant proposals and reports, and recruited and managed an advisory board of faculty and administrators from over 60 colleges, universities, and public libraries.