Research at AAS

Traces of the Trade, a television documentary that explores the history and legacy of the slave trade in New England.

About the Fellow

Katrina Browne is a documentary filmmaker based in Berkeley, California. She has studied photography, documentary directing, and documentary scriptwriting. She is also a diversity/anti-racism facilitator and trainer. Her work in the AmeriCorps program included multicultural leadership development and public service apprenticeship programs for young people. She was Outreach Planning Coordinator for Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, a film project that partnered communities, schools, and workplaces to use the film as a catalyst for dialogue and action on race, ethnicity, and equity. While at AAS, she will conduct research for a television documentary entitled, Traces of the Trade, which explores the history and legacy of the slave trade in New England.