The founder/director of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project is Dr. Andrea Roberts, an Associate Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning and Co-Director of the School's Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia's School of Architecture.
Dr. Andrea Roberts, "The Texas Freedom Colonies Project", contributed by Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn, Disaster STS Network, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 23 September 2024, accessed 30 November 2024. http://465538.bc062.asia/content/texas-freedom-colonies-project
Critical Commentary
The Texas Freedom Colonies Project is "an educational and social justice initiative dedicated to supporting the preservation of Black settlement landscapes, heritage, and grassroots preservation practices through research" (https://www.thetexasfreedomcoloniesproject.com/). It contains the Texas Freedom Colonies Atlas (2.1) with numerous sites, especially in the eastern half of Texas. Lareatha Clay, part time consultant on the Consent-Based Siting project, has helped to facilitate connections to Texas freedom colony-focused individuals and groups, and we are looking at how legacies of non-consent (regarding transportation infrastructure, energy technologies, flooding, etc.) relate to attempts at "consent-based siting" today.