Keith Oliver is happy to be joining the Shorefront team. He strongly believes in the power of storytelling and the lived experience of those storytellers. He has his bachelor's degree from Florida A&M University in theatre, and his MFA in Acting from The Theatre School at Depaul University. He is a father to an inquisitive, sweet almost 2 year old boy, Naim who has inspired him to seek to build communities for fathers.
Stacy Moss-Paul is the Lead Archivist at Shorefront Legacy Center. She is a graduate of DePaul University (BA, American Studies) and North Carolina Center University (MLS, Archives & Records Management). Her work focuses on popular culture and in the documentation of the lived experience of Black people in Chicago and Chicago’s North Shore.
Currently, Kris is a student at Lake Forest College, earning their undergraduate degree in History and double minor in Museum Studies and French. Kris plans to pursue a graduate degree in Archival Sciences.
Kris specializes in cataloging, metadata collection, genealogical records research, and organizing information. They are currently working on cataloging the donated material for what will become the Archie Motley Collection.
Mikala Stokes is a historian and writer from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her research explores the history of race, slavery, politics, and African American culture in the United States. Beginning in fall 2025, she will serve as Assistant Editor of Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, an open-access digital journal of public scholarship focused on climate change and environmental justice.
Jojo is a PhD Candidate in American History researching how the search for kinship, community, and security by Latino immigrants in Cicero, IL, transformed a once-working-class white suburb, also remaking individuals and transnational communities in the process. He is currently a Black Metropolis Graduate Assistant working with the Shorefront Legacy Center on a Digital Humanities Project that includes digital mapping, community archives, and oral history.
Outside Northwestern, Jojo maintains a Public History practice, working with organizations like the Chicago History Museum, the Cicero Independiente in Cicero, and the Midwest Nursing History Research Center at UIC.
Andrew Holter is a recent graduate of the PhD program in History at Northwestern University and holds MA and undergraduate degrees from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He is a former archival assistant at the Maryland Center for History and Culture in Baltimore and has worked on various projects as a freelance researcher and archivist.
Outside Northwestern, Jojo maintains a Public History practice, working with organizations like the Chicago History Museum, the Cicero Independiente in Cicero, and the Midwest Nursing History Research Center at UIC.
