i am absolutely delighted to see all of you joining us for the inaugural event of our director series for those of you who do not know me. i am christy coleman. i m the executive director here at jysf. and again, i m delighted to have those of you that are safely masked and distance in our audience here at the robin s theater at jamestown settlement as well as all of our guests that are joining us on zoom and to those who will be seeing this later for all of our guests on c-span american history that is joining us this evening as well. so what are we doing? right. what is all of this the purpose of this series quite simply is an opportunity for us to expand our mission which has been around for about 25 years. most folks know our mission simply as the jamestown yorktown foundation through its museums explores the convergence of cultures between native americans europeans and central west africans. but there s another part to our mission that is often left out and that is to a
i am absolutely delighted to see all of you joining us for the inaugural event of our director series for those of you who do not know me. i am christy coleman. i m the executive director here at jysf. and again, i m delighted to have those of you that are safely masked and distance in our audience here at the robin s theater at jamestown settlement as well as all of our guests that are joining us on zoom and to those who will be seeing this later for all of our guests on c-span american history that is joining us this evening as well. so what are we doing? right. what is all of this the purpose of this series quite simply is an opportunity for us to expand our mission which has been around for about 25 years. most folks know our mission simply as the jamestown yorktown foundation through its museums explores the convergence of cultures between native americans europeans and central west africans. but there s another part to our mission that is often left out and that is to a
of this series quite simply is an opportunity for us to expand our mission which has been around for about 25 years. most folks know our mission simply as the jamestown yorktown foundation through its museums explores the convergence of cultures between native americans europeans and central west africans. but there s another part to our mission that is often left out and that is to also explore the legacies bequeath to the nation. so this series is about all those things that have been bequeath to us. the things that are more light-hearted some of the things that really are going to be all of it s going to be thoughtful and engaging but the point is to allow us to understand that history really is usable. and it should be not cherry picked years of all so this whole series has some amazing guests that will be joining us and tonight is no exception. now tonight you re going to meet dr. jason herbert. now jason if you ask him to describe himself, he will say he s a dad a forme