Place Justice Advisory Council Members

• Samaa Abdurraqib, Executive Director of Maine Humanities Council
• Libby Bischof, USM Professor of History and Executive Director at Osher Map Library
• Zeke Crofton-Macdonald,  Ambassador for the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians
• Maulian Dana, PCRITP Co-Chair, Penobscot Tribal Ambassador
• Stephen M. Dickson, Maine State Geologist, Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry
• Bob Greene, Scholar of Maine’s Black history
• Fiona Hopper, Wabanaki and Africana Studies lead at Portland Public Schools
• Mishy Lesser, Director of the Upstander Project
• Kate McBrien, Maine State Archivist
• Kate McMahon, Scholar at Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, Center for the Study of Global Slavery
• Marcelle Medford, PCRITP Commissioner, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Bates College
• Darrell Newell, PCRITP Commissioner representing the Passamaquoddy Tribe
• Darren Ranco, Chair of Native American Programs and Professor of Anthropology, University of Maine
• Richard Silliboy, PCRITP Commissioner representing the Micmac Tribal Nation
• Rachel Talbot Ross, PCRITP Co-Chair, Speaker of the Maine House
• Dawud Ummah, Farmer and Owner of Ummah Gardens
• Georgia Zildjian, Castine resident and member of Castine’s Island Name Change Committee

Place Justice Team

• Erika Arthur, Policy Analyst with Catherine Cutler Institute, USM
• Meadow Dibble, Public History and Education Consultant, Project Lead
• Olivia Eckert, Graduate student research assistant, USM

Consultants

• Vana Carmona, Researcher of Maine’s Black history
• Florence Edwards, Freelance media producer, Facilitator
• Kate McMahon, Scholar focused on Maine’s role in the illicit slave trade
• Jill Williams, Transitional Justice consultant