| The University of Illinois at Chicago’s
Great Cities Institute has awarded the first Vernon D. Jarrett Senior
Fellowship to Julieanna Richardson, founder and executive director
of The HistoryMakers, an African American oral history archive.
Founded in 1999, The HistoryMakers produces a website (www.thehistorymakers.com),
television programs, and educational events based on interviews
with African American leaders in education, law, politics, business,
media, medicine, science, technology, arts, entertainment, the military,
and sports. Richardson will help set the long-term agenda for the
fellowship as its first appointment. She will also undertake programs
in her areas of expertise. Richardson holds a law degree from Harvard
University and a degree in theater and American studies from Brandeis
University, where she researched the Harlem Renaissance. She worked
as a corporate lawyer before joining the City of Chicago in 1985
as chair of the Chicago Cable Commission and administrator of the
Office of Cable Communications. She later founded a production company,
SCTN Teleproductions, which managed three local cable channels and
served as the production arm of C-SPAN. |
