About me
Jennifer Scott is the founding Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Urban Civil Rights Museum in Harlem - New York’s first museum dedicated to civil rights. Through her work of 25 years as a curator, anthropologist and public historian, she explores connections between museums, arts, history and social justice. Jennifer has been an advisor, interpretive planner, oral historian, and board member for several museums and history organizations. She has held leadership positions at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in Chicago and Weeksville Heritage Center, a nationally significant historic site in Brooklyn, New York that memorializes a Free Black community in the 19th century. At Weeksville, she launched the site’s oral history project, jazz history project, and co-curated a number of public programs and exhibitions, including two multi-site public art exhibitions: In Pursuit of Freedom, which explored the antislavery and abolition history of Brooklyn, and, Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn in partnership with Creative Time (2013-14) that explored historical practices of community resistance.
