
09 Oct Suffolk, Virginia: Historic Oak Lawn Cemetery Foundation (2018-2020)

- Tasks performed for the Foundation:
- Creation of Foundation logo (pictured above)
- Creation, design, and content for Foundation website
- Creation, design, development, and content for Foundation Facebook page
- Development of official Foundation letterhead
- Author of Foundation donor letter(s)
- Author of Foundation event flyers (2018-2019)
- Author of Oak Lawn Cemetery self-guided walking tour (copyright 2018)
- Author of Oak Lawn Cemetery notables list (copyright 2018)
- Author and designer of Oak Lawn Cemetery information booklet (provided members of First Baptist Church, Mahan, and journalist Alex Perry, Suffolk News Herald, March, 2019)
- Author: Compiled and submitted list of eligible burials (Oak Lawn Cemetery) for Virginia African American cemeteries eligible for state funding, December, 2018
Preservation Virginia: Legislative Update, January 14, 2019
Virginia Acts of the Assembly: HB2311, Historical African American cemeteries; adds a cemetery in City of Suffolk, March 8, 2019
Black History Month Presentation, Oak Lawn Cemetery, First Baptist Church, Mahan (February 16, 2019)

- Author: “Suffolk’s Oak Lawn Cemetery: A History,” Suffolk Happenings, Harambee Communications, Inc. May, 2019.
- Historical highway marker: Research, application, and text (2019)

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