Recent Projects

Media Opportunities & Interviews

Let’s Connect!

I am passionate about sharing the mission of Lynnfield Historical Consulting with the world, and I am forever grateful when someone decides to feature me in their article, podcast, blog, conference, or other avenue. I find great value in the connection that comes with interviews, so feel free to contact me to share my views on:

• Archives & Records Management

• Entrepreneurship

• Genealogy & Personal Archives

• Historical Topics

• Popular Culture & Current Events

• Climate Change & Preservation

If my perspectives may be of interest to your audience, feel free to reach out to me by sending an email using the button below.

Favorite Features

Workshops & Conferences

• Bishop-Grosseteste University (BGU), October 2021. Speaker, “Black Women as Educators & Social Activists.”

• Mid-America Arts Alliance (MAAA), September 2021. Speaker, “Stretch Your Operational Wings: Tools for Assertive Engagement.”

• Texas Historical Commission (THC), March 2021. Speaker, “Putting It On Paper: Incorporating MOUs into Your Community Engagement Plans.”

• Texas Historical Commission (THC), January 2021. Speaker, “Let’s Meet Halfway: Authentic Community Engagement for Local Museums.”

• American Association for the Study of State & Local History (AASLH), September 2020. Panelist, “Do the Right Thing: Community Engagement in Challenging Times.”

• United States Intellectual History Conference, October 2017. Opening Plenary Panelist.

• HISD Social Studies Teachers’ Staff Development Day, October 2017. “Azellia White and the Legacy of Black Women Aviators in Texas.”

• Texas Oral History Association Conference, April 2016. “From the Bottom Up: Discovering Community Activism Through Oral Histories”

• Texas Library Association Conference, March 2016. “Basics of Oral History” (Adrienne Cain, co-presenter)

• Duke University Graduate Student History Conference, 2012. “The Least of These: Courts, Delinquency, and the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls”

• Triangle African American History Colloquium Conference, 2012. “Autonomy, Black Girls, and Juvenile Justice in the Jim Crow South”

• North Carolina State University Graduate Student History Conference, 2012. “Citizenship and Gender at the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls”

• SSRC-Mellon Mays Summer Conference, 2011. “A Keen Sense of Responsibility: The NACW and Reform for Orphan Girls”

• Mellon Mays Regional Conference, 2007. “Building Their Own Pulpits: Women & Black Spiritualist Churches”

News Outlets

• Fox Weather. “Preserving Black History from Extreme Weather.” February 2022.

• Accuweather. “How Saving Cemeteries from Weather Impacts Preserves Black History.” February 2022.

• France 24. “West Africa: Meet the African-Americans Returning to the Continent.” (Feature story on birthright trip to West Africa.) February 2020.

• Valerie in Voyage Houston Magazine, February 2018.

• Valerie on Deborah Duncan’s “Great Day Houston” segment, December 2017. “Genealogy 101.”

• Valerie on Melanie Lawson’s “Crossroads” segment, November 2017. “A Look Inside the African American Oral History Project.”

• HCC TV Interview on Dialogue Houston, hosted by Larry Payne, September 2015.

• KCOH 92.9 Radio Interview on Interchange, hosted by Larry Payne, September 2015.

Podcasts

• Valerie on Lindsay Gary’s Gumbo Podcast, December 2020.

• Valerie on Michelle Ngome’s Networking with Michelle Podcast, July 2020.

• Valerie on Love No Limit Podcast, June 2018.

• Valerie on Geeks Without God Podcast, May 2018.

• Valerie on Mindshift Podcast, April 2018.

Digital & In-Person Events

• Rachel Cargle’s The Great Unlearn, May 2020. “America’s Birth Story.” Guest Expert.

• The AfroCommuniversity’s Planner Party, February 2020. Featured Speaker.

• NISD Girls’ Empowerment Banquet, May 2019. “Finding Power in the Past.” Keynote Speaker.

• PGAAMCC Sunday Scholar Brunch, February 2019. “Justice, Memory, & Sacred Grounds: Preservation & the Sugar Land 95.”

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