FAM promotes Dr. Gaila Sims to Vice President of Programs and Interpretation

December 11, 2024 | Community News |

Dr. Gaila Sims standing outside.Dr. Gaila Sims was recently promoted to Vice President of Programs and Interpretation for the Fredericksburg Area Museum (FAM). She was hired by FAM, to fill a position created in 2022, Curator of African American History.  This position is co-funded by the City of Fredericksburg.  She is still doing this important work in addition to her new responsibilities at the Museum.

Dr. Sims has made substantial contributions, both personally and professionally, to Fredericksburg since her arrival.  You can read more about those in the announcement from FAM.

She was recently published by Cambridge University Press sharing her emotional and professional journey as an African American woman, living on the grounds of the former plantation and doing work to give honor to the stories of enslaved men, women, and children – whose names we may never know.

Read the article by Dr. Sims “Sparking Freedom: Enslaved Resistance in Fredericksburg and Stafford, Virginia.”

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