Project Team
Cymone Fourshey
Director of the Griot Institute
Associate Professor of History and International Relations
Diane Jakacki
Digital Scholarship Coordinator
Michelle Lauver
Griot Programs Manager
Barbara Wankollie ’26
Griot Intern
Summer 2024
Local Historian
Agnes Meeker
An independent researcher and lay historian whose passion has been gathering information on the sugar mills and plantations of the island.
Past Contributors
Kareen George
Griot Student Assistant
Fall 2019 – Spring 2020, Spring 2021
Christian Howard-Sukhil
Digital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow
Ifunanya Maduka
Griot Student Assistant
Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
Tatiana Roman
Griot Student Assistant
In Memoriam
Carmen Gillespie
Founder of the Griot Institute