Daisha Brabham

Daisha Brabham is a public historian, curriculum writer, and teacher educator. She holds a B.S. in Secondary Education from Southern Connecticut State University and MA in Public History from the Royal Holloway University of London, where she researched transnational black resistance movements and black feminist print culture. MA. Prior to joining the Gilder Lehrman Center, she worked as a high school social studies teacher and teacher educator. In 2019, she was awarded a Fulbright to receive her in Public History, where she was already a recipient of the Barzun Prize to expand her play, Homegoing, to sixth formers in which students learn about and produce stories about Afro-Diasporic histories.  She is also an adjunct faculty member at Southern Connecticut State University and steering committee member of the Anti-Racist Teaching and Collective. 

In addition to writing curriculum, she has facilitated several professional development opportunities and served as a panelist for various webinars and conferences to discuss anti-racist, culturally relevant pedagogy.