Panelists will include Professor Joe Onosko of the UNH Education Department; Vernis Jackson, president of the Seacoast African American Cultural Center; Barbara Ward, director and curator at the Moffatt-Ladd House; JerriAnne Boggis, director of the Harriet Wilson Project; and Sandi Clark, actor/director/producer of Jukwaa Theatrical Productions, will perform as "Ona Judge."

Beverly Morgan-Welch serves as the chief executive of the oldest and most visible African American history museum in New England located on Boston’s Beacon Hill and Nantucket.

Under Morgan-Welch’s leadership, the Museum of African American History has become a nationally recognized institution increasing scholarship and collections. In 2003, she forged a powerful partnership, the museum’s buildings became Historic Sites of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

While preserving the historic sites, Beverly determined to tell the triumphant stories of enslaved, free, self-emancipated and liberated black communities in New England. She enlisted scholars to research and mount exhibits that are singular in their presentation of African American History, spanning topics from The First African American Authors to Black Entrepreneurs of the 18th and 19th Centuries.

Beverly also commemorated the 200th Birthday of William Lloyd Garrison (2005) in collaboration with his family and the 200th Anniversary of the African Meeting House (2006) in Boston, a National Historic Landmark.

Beverly’s career spans three decades of experience in not-for-profit management and corporate philanthropy. She has served as the Executive Director of the Greater Hartford Arts Council, Director of Development at the Wadsworth Atheneum, and Assistant Dean of Admission at Amherst College. Beverly was also the Manager of Community Relations at Raytheon, a member of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Hartford, and Secretary of the Connecticut Mutual Life Foundation serving the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility Department.

A graduate of Smith College with a major in Theatre and Speech, in 2009, she received the Smith Medal awarded to graduates "who, in the judgment of the trustees, exemplify in their lives and work the true purpose of a liberal arts education."

Currently she is a Member of three distinguished history institutions: the Antiquarian Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Historical Society.

For more information or to register for lunch ($15), call 603-380-1231.