Joseph Jordan
Director
919-962-9001
jfjordan@email.unc.edu

Christopher Wallace
Communiversity and Undergraduate Programs Manager
919-962-7264
chrislw@email.unc.edu

Sheriff Drammeh
Programs Associate
919-843-2669
sheriff7@email.unc.edu

Javier Jaimes-Ayala
Facilities Manager
919-962-7025
jaimes@email.unc.edu

Shakera Singleton
Administrative Manager
919-843-2668
snsingl@email.unc.edu

Gregg Moore
Assistant Stone Center Librarian
919-843-5804
moorejg@email.unc.edu

Stephanie Cobert
Program Officer
919-962-0395
stephcob@email.unc.edu

Joseph Jordan
Director

Joseph Jordan has been Director of the Sonja H. Stone Center for Black Culture and History since 2001. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor, African/African-American Studies, an affiliate faculty member in the curriculum in Global Studies, and Director of the Venezuela Aspects of the African Diaspora Study Abroad Project. His current work focuses on the cultural politics of race, identity and artistic production in the diaspora.

His writing includes an upcoming special issue of Black Scholar, co-edited with Daynali Flores-Rodriguez on the Life and Work of Frantz Fanon, and an essay entitled Can the Artist Speak? Hamid Kachmar’s Subversive Redemptive Art of Resistance in Bodies of Knowledge: Interviews, African Art, and Scholarly Narratives, Joanna Grabski and Carol Magee, eds., (Indiana University Press forthcoming 2012). Other work includes Globilizacíon y Derechos de Propiedad Intelectual: Problemas y Perspectivas, Política Exterior y Soberania. Publicacíon Trimestral del Instituto de Altos Estudios Diplomáticos ‘Pedro Gual’, Julio-Septiembere 2007; and Cabral, Solidarity and the African Diaspora in the Americas (book chapter) in Cabral no Cruzamento de Épocas: Comunicações e Discursos  Produzidos no II Simpósio Internacional Amílcar Cabral, (2005)

He currently serves as a Board member of the National Council for Black Studies as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of The Black Scholar Journal of Black Studies and Research; as a member of the Editorial Board of PALARA – Publication of the Afro-Latin American Research Association; and as co-chair of TransAfrica Forum’s Scholar’s Council. He is a founding member of the Afro-Colombian Solidarity Network, and a member of the coordinating team of the Future of Minority Studies Research Project.

Chris Wallace, Communiversity and Undergraduate Programs Director: Chris Wallace has been the Communiversity and Undergraduate Program Director at the Stone Center since Oct. 2012. Since that time, Chris and the Stone Center has helped to raise the profile of Communiversity in and outside of the community by partnering with campus and community organizations, who help to drive the mission of the Stone Center while providing academic and cultural enrichment support for local K-8th grade student participants.
Chris, and the team at the Stone Center, have worked to design programming that helps to meet the evolving needs of its student participants by stimulating more action in the community and diving into visual and performing arts activities, which increase opportunities for academic success. His desire to educate, empower and inspire youth through challenging them to become better versions of themselves helped to earn him the 2016 Robert E. Bryan Public Service award at the University, an award which recognizes outstanding engagement and service to the state of North Carolina and is one of the University’s highest public service honors. In 2017, Chris’ efforts earned him the University Diversity Award for commitment to diversity and inclusion, the University’s highest recognition for diversity efforts. Chris is a proud graduate of an Historical Black College and University, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and has served with organizations such as the Black Child Development Institute of Greensboro, the Carolina Panthers, the National Youth Sports Program, Upward Bound, the YMCA, Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Durham Rescue Mission and many others.