At the heart of the Center for Local Knowledge is a Community Advisory Committee made up of local Black residents whose families are rooted in this history. Representing every Black neighborhood, past and present, the Committee guides and determines the Center for Local Knowledge’s priorities and helps the JSAAHC identify the most pressing community needs. 

This Committee will disrupt traditionally extractive models of history-telling by repositioning power, agency, and authority within the hands of the people who have lived, and continue to live, this history. Together, they will determine what community narratives we prioritize and hold at the core of our historical interpretation.