Meet Our Team
If you have any questions about the Avondale Neighborhood Archive, please contact Erena Nakashima (nakashea@mail.uc.edu).
Community Partners
Avondale Branch, Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton county
Kaya Burgin: Branch Manager
Renee Roberson: Librarian / Director of Oral History Project
Avondale Development Corporation
Russell Hairston: Executive Director
April Gallelli: Community Organizer
Project Manager
Anne Delano Steinert: Visiting Assistant Professor of History, University of Cincinnati
Interns
Erena Nakashima: Graduate Intern, University of Cincinnati / Manager of Avondale Neighborhood Archive
Divya Kumar: Graduate Intern, University of Cincinnati / Supervisor of Avondale Youth History Corps
Advisors
University of Cincinnati, Center for the City
David Stradling: Zane Miller Professor of Urban History
Rebecca Wingo: Director of Public History
Carla Chifos: Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Tia Gaynor: Founding Director of the Center for Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation
Nathan Pell Ela: Assistant Professor of Political Science
The University of Cincinnati Institute for the Advanced Study of Democracy and Culture
John McNay: Professor of History, UC Blue Ash
Jonathan Kregor: Professor of Musicology, Head of Composition, Musicology, and Theory, CCM
Support
The Avondale Neighborhood History Initiative has benefited from the generous support from the University of Cincinnati's Community Change Collaborative.