Yonghee Suh is a professor of Social Studies Education at Old Dominion University. Her research centers on history teaching, teacher learning and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her recent work, “Experiences of African American teachers in desegregated PK-12 schools” (2020) and “Planning to teach a difficult history through historical inquiry: The case of school desegregation” (2021), have been published in venues, such as Schools and The Journal of Social Studies Research. As a former middle school teacher, she enjoys working with teachers, community partners, archivists, and historians through grants from National Endowment for the Humanities, the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Program, and 4VA initiatives.

Dr. Brian Daugherity is an associate professor of history at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research focuses on the implementation of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision in Virginia. Dr. Daugherity has published and edited many works including With All Deliberate Speed: Implementing Brown v. Board of Education (2008), Keep On Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia (2016), and A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia (2019). He is currently co-producing a 60- minute documentary film on the historic Green v. New Kent County (1968) U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Anne Walker
Mentor

Anne is a middle school US History and Civics teacher in Prince William County, Virginia. The 2019 Virginia recipient of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship, she is currently finishing her Master’s in American History and Government with Ashland University. Her Capstone project was inspired by her participation in the Long Road From Brown workshop and focuses on the quest for Civil Rights in Virginia from Jamestown to the present. When she is not chained to her computer, she can be found researching at the Library of Virginia as a 2021 Brown Research Fellow, helping to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Virginia’s current constitution

Alex Northrup
Mentor

Alex Northrup is the Chair of the History Department at Foxcroft School, where he holds the Anna Griswold Greenway Faculty Chair. He also is the Director of the Foxcroft’s Innovation Lab, and presents frequently on the intersection of technology and education, including at conferences for the Virginia Society for Technology in Education, the Virginia Association of Independent Schools, and the Association of Technology Leaders in Independent Schools. He is a reader for the AP Human Geography exam, and recently earned his remote pilot certification to fly drones.

Michael McCulloch
Mentor

Michael McCulloch is a vetern teacher in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system, having developed the African American History curriculum in several high schools. He has a BA in political science from UNC-Charlotte, teaching certification from Winston-Salem State University and an MA from Wake Forest University. He coaches Girls’ softball and Boys’ basketball in his spare time, but not necessarily for fun. He appreciates food of other cultures, tries to master the crossword, and enjoys travel.

Suzan Hiller
Mentor

Suzan Hiller is a 30 year veteran Social Science teacher currently teaching AP Psychology and US History at Charlottesville High School in Charlottesville, Virginia. Suzan holds a BA in Political Science and a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction. She has been a National Board Certified teacher since 2013 and highly recommends all teachers pursue NBC. She is the head coach of the CHS Scholastic Bowl team and an AP Reader for the AP Psychology Exam. Outside of teaching, she enjoys spending time with her two children and an occasional trip to the beach. 

Allison Ramirez is a recent graduate of Old Dominion University where she received her Master’s in Secondary Education. She has worked on the project with Dr. Suh and Dr. Daugherity since January 2020 and will begin her teaching career this academic school year at Albemarle County teaching high school history.

Dennis Williams
Site Coordinator

Dennis Williams is a high-school teacher in Richmond Public Schools and an adjunct professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He completed his Master’s in Art History and his Master’s in Education at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2015 and 2018, respectively. In 2019, he was a National Teaching Fellow at Yale University. 

Tony Loi
Technical Support

Tony Loi is a recent graduate at Old Dominion University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Cybersecurity. He currently works for ODU's DSG group in the ITS department as an hourly. His responsibilities include providing support in Windows, Mac OS, and Linux environments for ODU faculty/staff. The position also entails installing, writing scripts, maintaining, and upgrading of desktop computer hardware, software, peripherals, and related networking within ODU. Tony’s dream profession is to work in software development or data science. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, reading, and lifting weights.

Isabella Burns
Graduate Assistant

Isabella Burns graduated from the University of Mary Washington in May 2021 and received her Bachelor’s in Sociology with an emphasis in Education. During her undergraduate career, she co-authored the article “Lessons Learned: International Research Collaborations During COVID-19” in The Undergraduate Journal of Service Learning and Community-Based Research. Isabella was also the quantitative researcher for UMW’s Basic Needs Survey that was distributed in 2021. She is currently working on her Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics with a concentration in Teaching English as a Second Language at Old Dominion University.