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 an M.A. in Public History from the Royal Holloway University of London, where she researched transnational black resistance movements and black feminist print culture. She was awarded a Fulbright for her M.A. work and received the Barzun Prize for Youth Engagement, which she used to lead U.K. students in developing stories about Afro-Diasporic histories.

Prior to joining the Gilder Lehrman Center, Daisha worked as a high school social studies teacher and teacher educator. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Southern Connecticut State University and a steering committee member of the Anti-Racist Teaching & Learning Collective. In addition to writing curriculum, she has facilitated several professional development opportunities and has served as a panelist for various webinars and conferences to discuss anti-racist, culturally relevant pedagogy.