Jennifer Vannette is Outreach Coordinator for the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History, where she works to promote community engagement. Her passion is making history accessible and relevant to all people while advocating for representation and inclusion.
She earned her doctorate from Central Michigan University and focuses on U.S. History with an emphasis on human and civil rights. She spent several years working as an independent public historian who offers a variety of presentations, classes, and workshops to community groups, schools and corporations. Her recent projects include helping Anti-Racist Midland with an oral history project, Voices of Black Midland, that examines the Black experience in Midland, MI from 1960-present-day; research on the 1967 Saginaw Riot; and developing classes and materials to make history topics and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion ideas accessible. She also enjoyed a successful exhibit launch as guest curator a women’s history exhibit for the Midland Center for the Arts, 20/20 Vision: Seeing HerStory in 2020.
Jennifer occasionally writes history articles for public-facing media including the Midland Daily News, The Mudsill, AHA Today (the blog of the American Historical Association), Medium, and the Washington Post.
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