Saladin Quanaah Allah
Director of Community Engagement @Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Community Engagement @Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center
US
Build and support authentic community pride and ownership of the Heritage Center, its mission, and stories of the Underground Railroad in Niagara Falls. Work collaboratively to align and mobilize critical stakeholder relationships that support mutually beneficial needs, goals and priorities of the community and the Heritage Center. Part of my essential duties include: Serve as the key external representative of the Heritage Center and exemplify the Heritage Center’s commitment to equity, diversity, accessibility, and inclusion. Be visibly present in the neighborhoods of Niagara Falls and the greater Western New York Region, and work with a variety of organizations serving the needs of local communities. Serve as Heritage Center spokesperson in a variety of situations both virtually and in-person, often in media settings. Plan and manage the Heritage Center’s presence at community-led events, markets, performances, and meetings. Oversee requests from outside organizations for Heritage Center participation in community related activities. Seek strategic partners for new or expanded collaborations with local, regional and national organizations to increase awareness, working to connect tourist audiences directly to the community. Bring the voices representing community interests, needs and priorities to the Heritage Center to inform program and exhibit planning and implementation. Implement strategies to build bridges between historical content and current events, and co-create an inquiry-based learner and facilitated dialogue experience. Serves as a resource to colleagues to identify partnering organizations and advisors for programs, projects and exhibits. Advise on the Museum Ambassador Program and paid internships that encourages and supports a diverse body of team members from communities underrepresented in museums, history and arts to obtain training in the museum field.
EDUCATION
Central State University
Therapeutic Recreation/Recreational Therapy
ABOUT SALADIN QUANAAH ALLAH
I am the third-great grandson of famed underground railroad freedom seeker Rev. Josiah Henson -whom Harriet Beecher Stowe used as the primary narrative for her famous 19th century novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Founder of the Atlantis School For Gifted Youngsters [an early childhood learning center], and Quanaah Publishing. I have authored twenty-three books; five which are a part of a Curatorial Activism archive in the British Library. Additionally, I have worked as a program consultant for the History Channel series \'Gangland\', and have been globally cited as a subject-matter expert on Jay-Z’s cultural affiliations. I am a featured historian in the Morgan Freeman narrated IMAX Film \'Into America’s Wild\' Hosted by Ariel Tweto and John Herrington and the award-winning docuseries ‘Enslaved’ executive produced by Samuel L. Jackson and directed by three-time Emmy award-winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici. I am a featured educator for the 2022 United Nations The Outreach Programme on the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Slavery Remembrance Day documentary short, and a featured guest host in the CBC The Nature of Things documentary \'Secrets Agents of the Underground Railroad’ by Attraction, hosted by Anthony Morgan and directed by Adrian Callendar. I also co-produced and appear in the Buffalo and Erie County Naval Park documentary ‘Two Wars: The Road to Integration’ written and directed by Steven Tedesco. I am presently developing a television series based upon the underground railroad.
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