Dr. Wilson is an Urban Anthropologist trained at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. She was awarded a doctorate in cultural anthropology in 1991. She earlier received a Master of Arts from the same institution in 1983. She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Hunter College in Religious Studies in 1979. Dr. Wilson is the author of New York City’s African Slaveowners: A Social and Material Culture History (1994). She is coauthor of How to Get Men Involved (1993): Strategies for Early Childhood Education, and a contributor to the Encyclopedia of New York City (1995). She is a member of the American Association of Anthropology. She has operated Reclaim the Memories: Black History Tours of Old New York from 1984-1987. She has also published Through Black Eyes: Revisioning New York History, a newsletter highlighting the achievements and contributions of Africans in 17th, 18th, and 19th century New York. She has lectured on the subject of the colonial and early New York African presences for more than a decade. She has lectured and or given tours for the U.S. General Services Administration, the American Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Institute, the U.S. General Accounting Office, the U.S. Department of Justice, NYC Police Department, New York Historical Society, The American Institute of Architects, New York University School of Medicine, the National Black Caucus, Howard University, Brown University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, Manhattan College, New School of Social Research, National Park Service and Numerous others. Dr. Wilson has appeared on numerous television and radio shows discussing slavery in the north, and the NY African presence. She also appears in the following film documentaries that depict the public and community efforts to preserve the landmark NY African Burial Ground: Feel It in My Bones (1993 PBS), Slavery’s Buried Past (1995 PBS), Unearthing the Slave Trade (1993 The Learning Channel), The African Burial Ground: An American Discovery (1994 US-GSA), Soon I’ll be free to Travel Home (1994). Since 1993, Dr. Wilson has served as the Director for the Office of Public Education & Interpretation of the New York City African Burial Ground Project (OPEI). She is also the editor and chief of the Project’s newsletter, the Update, which has 20,000+ subscribers. She was the 1999/2000 national scholar for the Girls Inc., NEH funded pilot project to expose young girls to the filed of archaeology. In January 1999, the Office of the Mayor recognized her as the New York City Centennial Historian. She currently serves as a consultant to the City University of New York (CUNY) and the New York Historical Society on the Seneca Village Research Project. She also is a 2000/2002 & 2003/2004 recipient of speakers grant from the New York Council for the Humanities. Her funded lectures are entitled, “Traveling the New York African American Experience” and “The Good Works of New York African American Women.”