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Reparations Washington launches statewide study, invites descendants to take survey
Summary
Project principal Dr. Ashley Gardner and community engagement lead Ariel Davis used a Good Friday webinar to launch a community survey that will feed research and genealogical work into legislative reparations recommendations; the team emphasized respondent protections, a selection process for advisory panels, statewide listening sessions and upcoming town halls.
Dr. Ashley Gardner, project principal for the Reparations Washington study, said the team has launched a statewide community survey to gather input that will inform legislative and policy recommendations on reparations for descendants of victims of U.S. chattel slavery.
"This survey is critical to the work," Dr. Gardner told attendees during a Good Friday webinar introducing the project and its research teams. She described a two-part study: to quantify historical harms in Washington and to develop data-driven reparations recommendations informed by archival research, scholarship, genealogy and community insight.
Ariel Davis, the project's community engagement lead, urged residents, community-based organizations and nonprofits to participate and to invite the team to local events. Davis provided a direct…
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