Hello Everyone! Please introduce yourself and where you’re from here in the chatroom.

I’m Linda Norris. Senior Specialist for Methodology and Practice here at Sites of Conscience.

John Diefenderfer, NYS Archives.

I am Ashley Nelson, Communications Director at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience

Good morning everyone. Ed zooming in from the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation in the San Francisco Bay Area

Good Morning, I am Alan Kraut, professor of history at American University in Washington. I teach courses in immigration history and in the history of medicine and public health.

Michelle Nash, Elkhart County Historical Museum in Bristol, IN

Hi everyone, I'm Angi and I'm the Communications Associate at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience.

Hello everyone! My name is Kirby. I'm tuning in from Halifax, Nova Scotia (the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21).

Hello! I'm Nezka Pfeifer, Museum Curator at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis.

Good morning, I am Annette, Volunteer Services Manager at Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 in Halifax, NS (Mi'kma'ki)

I am currently chairing the History Advisory Committee of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. I work closely with the Park Service. I was also a consultant to the Tenement House Museum in New York.

If you have comments or questions, please feel free to share here in the chat box.

I'm shocked that health-care discrimination can actually be documented.... Ed's presentation gives us an excuse to tell an historic injustice done to Pumwani - a community that was used as 'home of comfort' for World War(s) soldiers (something similar to the Japanese and the Geishas. Not a distant-past, the same community was and is still used for HIV/AIDS vaccine testing by John Hopkins and other international institutions. Being a poor community, they mind much the goodies offered but neither the contracts or health-risks involved.

I see Emlyn's point about fundamental change, because it does feel like we, as a field, are really just starting to realize the scope of our participation in support of the social systems built on inequity. Are we really trusted organizations?

Yes indeed, Linda!

Thanks Michelle. That's exactly what I was thinking. Switch 'public health' with 'museums' and you have the same issues of trust and inclusion.

thanks everyone for great presentations and conversation

I'm curious, one thing I've learned from listening to sites is where there is oppression there is also resistance and survival. As we think about these injustices, how should we also understand the resistance and survival that get missed or underestimated as outside groups seek to engage with the injustice?

Must leave to teach. Excellent session. Thanks!

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