“Ancestors unKnown” with Dana Saxon

May 17, 2021 Christine Job

SEASON 1 EPISODE 40 |Flourish in the Foreign - Black Women Living & Thriving Abroad

Dana chats about how her studies took her to Amsterdam & Suriname, how she launched a business abroad and is now calling Brixton home.

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"Ancestors unKnown" with Dana Saxon Flourish In The Foreign

Meet Dana

Dana is the Founder of Ancestors unKnown, an education social enterprise that provides schools, nonprofit organizations, corporations, and other institutions with curriculum and workshops related to identity, family history research, and other untold histories. After spending nearly 10 years in the education nonprofit sector in the U.S., Dana moved from New York City to the Netherlands in 2011, where she earned a Master’s in Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. Her studies focused on the significance of family history research among people who descend from survivors of slavery, which revealed both shared and divergent experiences among Black people throughout the African diaspora. Since then, she’s all about introducing new audiences to some of the world’s untold histories and the power of genealogy research. While launching the business and trying by all means to live her best life, Dana has traveled plenty and lived in several cities, including Amsterdam, Paramaribo (Suriname), The Hague, and Bristol (UK), where she’s currently based.

Connect with Dana

http://ancestors-unknown.org

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danasaxon

https://www.instagram.com/blackgirlgone

https://www.instagram.com/ancestorsunknown

https://twitter.com/AncestorsUnknwn

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