Kyera Singleton

Kyera Singleton is the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters. She is also a PhD Candidate at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the Department of American Culture. Before joining CHAT, she was an American Democracy Fellow in the Charles Warren Center at Harvard University. She has held prestigious academic fellowships from the Beinecke Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, and the American Association of University Women (AAUW).

As a public history scholar, Kyera is part of the research team commissioned to write a report on slavery and reparations for the City of Boston. She is one of the co-curators of the Boston Slavery Exhibit in Faneuil Hall. She was a member of the Table of Voices Cohort at the Museum of Fine Arts-Boston for the Hear Me Now Exhibit: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina. She has been appointed to serve on the City of Boston's Commemoration Commission and the Special Commission on the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution for Massachusetts. She also served as an advisor on the Boston Art Commission’s Recontextualization Subcommittee for the bronze Emancipation Group Statue. 

Recently, she received a Women of Courage and Conviction Award from the National Council of Negro Women and an Official Citation from the Massachusetts' State Senate for her work in documenting the history of slavery. She is a board member for Mass Humanities and serves on the advisory team for JustFlix, a youth focused storytelling organization in Medford.