Claire Bellerjeau is the founder of a non-profit organization called Remember Liss. She has been researching the Townsend family and those they enslaved for over seventeen years, including curating an exhibit on the Townsend “Slave Bible” in 2005. In 2015 she discovered a poem written by Jupiter Hammon, America’s first published African American writer. She has developed educational programs on the subjects of slavery in New York and the American Revolution on Long Island and is creating a new curriculum to share Liss’s story using primary documents from her research.