This webinar is the second installment of the nine-part Zoom webinar series, "Growing Our Griots: Strengthening North Carolina's Black Heritage-Keepers," designed to offer guidance and strategies around numerous topics.
Come join us for a presentation from two leading professionals in emergency preparedness and collections management best practices for African American cultural spaces.
Presenters
State Archives Outreach Coordinator, Adrienne Berney, has worked in statewide fields services for history and collecting organizations since 2010 and joined the N.C. department of State Archives and History staff in 2020. With a background as a museum objects curator and historian, Berney has helped colleagues develop skills in historical interpretation, collections, preservation, and disaster recovery. She coordinates the Traveling Archivist Program, the Federation of N.C. Historical Societies, and DNCR's Cultural Resources Emergency Support Team.
Adrienne Nirdé, Associate Director, NC African American Heritage Commission has served as the Associate Director of the NC African American Heritage Commission since 2020 where her role focuses on grant project management and communications. Prior to her time with the Commission, she spent over eight years working in museums and cultural institutions, including the President James K. Polk State Historic Site in Pineville, NC, and the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby, NC. She holds a Master's degree in Museum Studies from Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis as well as a Bachelor's degrees in History and Anthropology from Indiana University. She is a proud member of the Smithsonian's Interpreting African American History and Culture Workshop 2020 cohort. She has always had a primary interest in sharing diverse stories, particularly those have not yet been told and centering the communities that hold them. Adrienne currently lives and gardens in Wendell, NC with her husband, a high school social studies teacher, and their two dogs.
"Growing Our Griots: Strengthening North Carolina's Black Heritage Keepers" is supported in part by North Carolina Humanities, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act. www.nchumanities.org.
