Muriel Tillinghast is this conference’s originator and coordinator. She is also the Co-Chair, Lucy’s Children. She is a history buff with a particular interest in American slavery and its systemic residual effects..

Professor Roy E. Finkenbine, Ph. D., is co-chair in the History Department, the University of Detroit Mercy in Detroit, MI. His teaching area includes African American history, modern Africa, slave resistance, the Civil War era, and the Underground Railroad. He is the Director of the Black Abolitionist Archive. Dr. Finkenbine’s writings include many articles and a number of books. Currently, he is completing a new book entitled Freedom Seekers in Indian Country.

T. Rasul Murray has been a student of the Afrogenic dimensions of cultures since the early 1960s. His general interest includes the African Diaspora with a particular concentration on Old New York and its African past. He is an avid researcher, published writer as well as a noted lecturer.

Asiba Tupahache has deep Matinecoc cultural roots. She has served as Chair of the Matinecoc Longhouse and has been active in reviving the Mantinecoc language as well as their forms and practices. Her book, Taking Another Look will be expanded in a new book entitled, Takin Another Look: A Further Examination. The focus of both books is the normalization of chronic oppression.