We are community members, preservationists, scholars, architects, organizers, artists, advocates, former residents, and descendants who have come together to create a vision for the future of five historically landmarked buildings at Barry Farm.
Director
Corey Shaw, Jr.
Steering Committee
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Melissa R. Daniel
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Daniel del Pielago
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Michael R. Fisher Jr.
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Greta Fuller
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Parisa Norouzi
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Sabiyha Prince
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Sarah Shoenfeld
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Amber Wiley
Advisory Board
Salim Adofo, Advisory Neighborhood Commission 8C
Alcione M. Amos, Independent Scholar
Joy Ford Austin, Humanities DC
Johanna Bockman, George Mason University
Jacqueline Carmichael, Howard University
Melani Douglass, National Museum of Women in the Arts
Herb Fame, Barry Farm Dwellings former resident
James C. Fraser, UNC, Asheville
Kymone Freeman, We Act Radio; Douglass Community Land Trust
Stephan Gilbert, Emily Edmonson descendant
Bradford Grant, Howard University
Laura Brower Hagood, DC History Center
Omar Hakeem, To Be Done Studio
Tanya Gaskins Hardy, A View of the Past LLC; Historic Chevy Chase DC
Louis Hicks, Humanities Consultant
Brook Hill, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
Cosby Hunt, Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS; Center for Inspired Teaching
Amanda Huron, University of the District of Columbia
John Johnson, Verbal Gymnastics Theater Company
Sandra Jowers-Barber, University of the District of Columbia Community College
Noel Lopez, National Capital Area of the National Park Service
Nancy MacWood, Committee of 100 on the Federal City
Paulette Matthews, Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association
Anna McCorvey, River East Design Center
Enid McDonald, Emily Edmonson descendant
Samir Meghelli, Anacostia Community Museum
Betsy Merritt, National Trust for Historic Preservation
Elizabeth Milnarik, Historical Architect
Nicole Odom, Barry Farm Tenants and Allies Association
Fath Davis Ruffins, Smithsonian National Museum of American History
Jared L. Sawyers, Second Baptist Church of Washington
Moe Shorter, Junk Yard Band; Barry Farm Dwellings former resident
Frank Smith, African American Civil War Museum
Glenn LaRue Smith, PUSH Studio; Black Landscape Architects Network
Rev. Wanda Thompson, Ambassador Baptist Church
Deborah Walsh, Barry Farm Dwellings former resident
Willie Wilson, Union Temple Baptist Church
Toni Wynn, Independent Writer, Editor, and Interpretive Planner
Dawne Young, Emily Edmonson descendant
Joseph Young, Photographer
Partners
To date, the DC Legacy Project: Barry Farm-Hillsdale has received support from HumanitiesDC through its Community Heritage and Vision Partnership grant programs. The National Trust for Historic Preservation provided a Preservation Grant and a Telling the Full History Preservation Fund award.
In partnership with the Bertelsmann Foundation, DC Legacy Project produced a 50-minute documentary film, Barry Farm: Community, Land and Justice in Washington DC, which premiered in June 2022.
The National Park Service has added the DC Legacy Project and the Barry Farm historic landmark to its Reconstruction Era National Historic Network and African American Civil Rights Network.
Respectively, these networks include many units of the national park system, as well as sites managed by state, local, and private entities that preserve locations and stories that tell the story of the crucial transition from slavery to freedom in the aftermath of Civil War, as well as a comprehensive narrative of the people, places, and events associated with African American Civil Rights movement in the United States.
