Historical Erasure & Recovering Overlooked Voices
Exploring how people and communities disappear from the historical record—and how research, storytelling, and preservation can help restore them.
Storytelling, Writing & Creative Development
Programs and conversations about developing meaningful stories, finding the heart of an idea, creative persistence, and bringing work from concept to completion.
Personal Growth, Purpose & Moving Forward
Engaging programs centered on reflection, resilience, personal development, purpose, and practical approaches to creating meaningful change.
Speaking & Program Topics
Dr. Michelle D. Dartis develops presentations, educational programs, and facilitated conversations that draw from her work as a writer, researcher, educator, public historian, and storyteller. Programs can be adapted for universities, libraries, schools, cultural organizations, community groups, and other audiences.
Black History, Public Memory & Community Stories
Connecting individual and family histories to larger questions of place, identity, community, and the preservation of Black history.