Leni Sorensen
Independent Scholar, Culinary Historian, Consultant, Speaker, Writer, Teacher of Rural Life Skills
- Role
- Owner Director at Indigo House
- Location
- Charlottesville, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Leni Sorensen
Fairs, festivals, historic house museums, hearth kitchens, classrooms, television; Most recently in the Peabody Award winning series Netflix \"High on the Hog\"(Episode 3). At scholarly conventions, historic house fundraisers, historic forums I have delivered talks and been on panels discussing the history of black America, foodways, slavery, agricultural history. My consultations with historic house museums have resulted in public programs, workshops for guides and docents, and strategies for developing diversity in staff and board membership in the museum setting.
Experience
Owner Director
Jan 2000 — Present · Crozet, VA, US
I am a culinary historian, consultant, speaker, event planer, writer, hearth cook, teacher of Rural Life Skills, canning, gardening, cooking, raising small livestock. I work from my home in Central Virginia. I\'ve worked for over twenty-five years in the world of the historic house museum, colleges and universities, community fairs and festivals using material culture and foodways to teach the history of African Americans (free and enslaved), farmers, and women from the 17th to 20th centuries.
Education
Mary Baldwin University
BA
1988 — 1992
William & Mary
MA-PHD
1993 — 2005
Skills
- Writing
- Museum Education
- American History
- Teaching
- Grants
- Editing
- Museums
- Grant Writing
- Historic Preservation
- Public Relations
- Curating
- Public Speaking
- Art History
- Non-Profits
- Fundraisers
- Community Outreach
- History
- Archives
- Cataloging
- Historical Research
- Event Planning
- Copy Editing
- Proofreading
- Archival Research
- Lecturing
- Cultural Heritage
- Higher Education
- Fundraising
- Nonprofits
- Research
- Museum Collections
- Historical Interpretation
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