Rikers Public Memory Project: History, Repair, and Public Memory

04/29/2026 - 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Creative Nonfiction
Panel

 

A panel bringing together voices behind the project discusses how these histories confront generational harms and challenge dehumanizing narratives—while also exploring how public memory can advance reparative justice.

Featuring:

  • Shana Russell, Historian and Teacher
  • Andrea Nelson, RPMP Administrative and Communications Coordinator
  • Turquoise Martin, RPMP Narrator
  • Tamara Santibañez, Oral Historian and Interdisciplinary Artist 

This program will open with a short presentation by Interim Charles J. Liebman Curator of Manuscripts Meredith Mann on the Library’s role in acquiring and preserving the collection.

The New York Public Library - Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
476 5th Ave
NY, NY 10018