Jennie K. Williams, Ph.D. is a historian with expertise in American slavery and the digital humanities, data and data ethics. Her book, Oceans of Kinfolk: African American Ancestral History & the Antebellum Coastwise Traffic of Enslaved Persons to New Orleans is forthcoming from UNC Press. Dr. Williams is the author of five databases which collectively contain the names of over 100,000 enslaved African Americans, and the Founding Executive Director of Kinfolkology: an open archive, database collective, and community dedicated to remembering enslaved people as kin and kindred in full partnership with Descendant communities. Dr. Williams regularly collaborates with scholars, museums, cultural institutions, and design teams to ensure that sites and projects interpreting slavery and African American history are grounded in rigorous scholarship and descendant-centered interpretation. Her consulting work includes historical research, interpretive planning, genealogical research, and advising on ethical approaches to representing slavery in public and digital spaces.