Elizabeth Flowers

Elizabeth Flowers is the chair of the Behavioral and Social Science Department at Los Angeles Southwest College. She has over a decade of experience in public history and teaching. Her research interests include Colonial and Antebellum America, American History, African American History, Reconstruction, Social Justice, and Labor Movements of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She graduated from the University of California Los Angeles, where she earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in African American and United States History. As co-founder of Frameworks & Narratives, she has worked on projects for The National Urban League, Local Projects, and Forest History.

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Yolanda Hester

Yolanda Hester is a public historian with an extensive background in historical research and analysis, content creation, interpretation, oral history, and project development. She has been featured in the PBS TV show Lost LA and the upcoming Netflix feature, Black Barbie: A Documentary. She has worked on projects for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Local Projects, the Urban Civil Rights Museum, The Center for Oral History Research at UCLA, and Forest History Society. She is the guest editor for the upcoming journal edition of Contours: ArtCalle, which will focus on Black dolls. She has written for The American Journal of Play and will have an article in the fall 2024 issue of The Public Historian. She is co-organizer of the Black Doll Symposium at Duke University. She currently works at the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies on the Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration project and is the Project Director of the Arthur Ashe Oral History project, an initiative of Arthur Ashe Legacy at UCLA.