Community Advisers

A foundational premise of the grant is that university faculty, staff, and students work with community partners in a reciprocal manner to further the equity-based missions of community groups, and provide UVA students with a variety of perspectives, expertise, and lived experiences.

We are grateful to our community partners for generously and actively helping us develop the programming of the Mellon Race, Place, and Equity grant. Read more about them and their work here:

• Descendants of Enslaved Communities at UVA
• Monacan Indian Nation
• Jefferson School African American Heritage Center
• Montpelier Descendants Committee

Related Projects and Initiatives

The Mellon Race, Place, and Equity (RPE) program builds on recent work at UVA that includes the President’s Commission on Slavery and the University, the completion of the Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and the report of the Racial Equity Task Force in summer 2020.

The RPE program runs alongside current initiatives including the President’s Commission on the University in the Era of Segregation, the recontextualization of UVA’s landscape, and a multi-year series of Race, Justice, and Equity faculty hires in a wide variety of disciplines.

• President’s Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation
• President’s Commission on Slavery and the University
• Racial Equity Task Force, and its final report
• Memorial to Enslaved Laborers
• JUEL Project (Jefferson's University: the Early Life): extensive online resource
• Slavery and the School of Law
• Pavilion X
• Equity Center: The UVA Initiative for the Redress of Inequity through Community-Engaged Scholarship,
• Voices of Equity
• Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Racial Equity
• Beloved Community C-Ville 
• "Architecture of Democracy in a Landscape of Slavery": online lecture
• Educated in Tyranny: Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's University: edited volume
• Charlottesville 2017: The Legacy of Race and Inequity: edited volume

Photo credit: Bill Johns; courtesy Monacan Indian Nation