The following individuals comprised our founding board of directors in 2010-2011:

Juanita Brown co-designed the transatlantic journey and facilitated many of the DeWolf family discussions in Traces of the Trade. Currently, Juanita leads Traces dialogues and workshops around the country and internationally. She also consults with nonprofit and government organizations in strategic meeting design and facilitation, and organizational development. She has creatively engaged San Francisco Bay Area schools in difficult dialogue around community building, race, class and gender identities and has developed policy and organizational analyses for California educational and nonprofit organizations. In her role as assistant director for Development at the Coalition of Essential Schools, Juanita raised start-up and operating funds for small-by-design schools in underserved communities. Juanita holds a Master’s in Public Policy from the Goldman School at the University of California at Berkeley. She also studied at Stanford and the University of Ghana at Legon. A Chicago native, Juanita lives in Oakland, California.

Chuck Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he directs the Program on Inequality and the Common Good. He is a national expert on economic inequality and the current economic crisis in the U.S. He coordinates a number of public policy initiatives to reduce income and wealth disparities, including Wealth for the Common Good, a network of business leaders and high net worth individuals that advocate for fair taxation and economic policies that share prosperity. He is author of several books, including Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity (New Press, 2005). He co-authored with Bill Gates Sr., Wealth and Our Commonwealth, a case for taxing inherited fortunes. His newest book co-authored with Mary Wright, The Moral Measure of the Economy (Orbis Press, May 2007), examines Catholic social teachings on U.S. economic life. He lives in Boston with his wife, the Rev. Patricia Brennan, and daughter.

Scherazade Daruvalla King is the founder and executive director of Amplifyme, a national non-profit organization that uses media arts to amplify the engagement of all people in action for positive change. Scherazade is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where she received with a degree in business administration in 1990. She has worked as a consultant with Coopers & Lybrand in Washington, D.C., specializing in the city’s non-profit sector; started SDK Management, a consulting firm for international non-profit organizations; and  was the senior lecturer in the Department of Business and Economic Studies at the University of Cape Coast, in Ghana, West Africa, where she also provided strategic business planning for micro-enterprises. Scherazade is also the president of the Power Company, a full-service communications firm for non-profits and has begun Empowerment Records, a subsidiary record label devoted solely to providing socially conscious and socially responsible music in various popular genres. Scherazade also serves on the board of Boston Neighborhood Network TV and Hope Church.

Harold Fields received a degree in civil engineering from Oklahoma State University. He had a career for over 30 years with IBM and the airline industry as a systems designer and programming manager. He was a founder of Multi-Racial Families of Colorado and has served on the board of two restorative justice organizations. Harold facilitates a citywide monthly racial dialogue in Denver that has been active for twelve years. He appears in Traces of the Trade as part of dialogue with the family, and served as the training director for the film. Harold is also the music librarian for the Spirituals Project Choir.

Hez Norton is the executive and organizational transitions manager at Third Sector New England. In this role, Hez has overseen the quality of executive and organizational transitions for over 100 organizations. Hez brings experience as an interim executive director as well as a consultant to nonprofits in the areas of executive transition, leadership development and fundraising. Hez served as the executive director of Resource Generation, a national organization that engages young adults with financial wealth in philanthropy, and founded and was the executive director of North Carolina Lambda Youth Network. Hez has been a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellow and received a fellowship from the Lyndhurst Foundations Southern Community Partners Program. Hez has served as a board member of the Funding Exchange Foundation and Funders for Gay and Lesbian Issues. She is also a co-creator and contributing editor to the book Classified: How to Stop Hiding Your Privilege and Use It for Social Change.

James DeWolf Perry is the Tracing Center’s founding board chair and president. James was nominated for an Emmy award for his role as the principal historical consultant for Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, the 2008 PBS documentary about the legacy of the northern U.S. role in slavery and the slave trade. James also appears throughout the film, as a descendant of U.S. Senator James DeWolf, the nation’s leading slave trader. James has spoken across the nation and abroad about his family’s, and the nation’s, historic role in slavery, and has facilitated discussions about the legacy of slavery and race with corporate, educational, religious and community groups. James attended law school at Columbia University and has done graduate work at Harvard University, including research into the transatlantic slave trade and its abolition. His private-sector experience includes legal and financial analysis and consulting on information management and organizational development. James has worked on the Traces of the Trade project since 1999.