Dr. Corrie Claiborne is an Associate Professor of English and American Literature at Morehouse College and Director of the Movement, Memory, and Justice Project. As an educator of over 24 years, she specializes in teaching and writing about the American South and the Civil Rights Movement. Her work with MMJ is closely tied to the work that she does with and in Gullah Geechee communities, particularly in terms of how the stories of Gullah Geechee people help illuminate key parts of the African American story. Her essay, “‘Decorating the Decorations': Daughters of the Dust and the Aesthetics of the Quilt,” was published in 2020 by Peter Lang Press in a collection commemorating the 25th anniversary of Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust. She is also a writer and the executive director for a documentary on Johnnetta Betsch Cole.