Ital Preservation is designed to help museums, local archives, small businesses, and families organize their records in a way which ensures the retention of memories. Through proper organization of your records, we raise awareness of the importance our heritage. Accurate preservation of what we've learned from the past is key to our present vitality and generational thriving.
Ital Preservation will not only keep our history alive, but teach future generations about our rich history and empower inaccurately represented minorities inside communities towards intellectual and financial to success. Ital Preservation is vital to the survival of our stories and culture.
Dr. Gabrielle Hutchins is a scholar of African American, Caribbean and Latin American history with over ten years of professional experience in the field of archival science and public history. She earned her doctoral degree in Caribbean and Latin American history from Howard University. Gabrielle’s concentration is immigration, civil rights, and migration of West Indian, African American, and Latin American farm laborers. With strengths in activism, leadership, education, and organization, Gabrielle pursued her passion by founding Ital Preservation, a public history consulting firm.
Her initiatives are making a significant impact on minority based businesses and organizations to help them keep their legacy going, accurately manage, and preserve their histories. As a historian, her mission is to help educate and candidly spread awareness about our history to the community. As an archivist, Dr. Hutchins is meticulously concerned with the accurate documentation and availability of records, files, and collections of various related materials.
Dr. TaKeia N. Anthony is an Associate Professor of History and CESKKA Academic Support Liaison at Kentucky State University. Her areas of expertise are Mobilized African Diaspora and Archiving. She has lectured and spoken on panels throughout the United States, South Korea, The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Columbia, London, and Ghana, and also curated the archival records of the James Weldon Johnson Branch (Jacksonville, FL) of The Association for the Study of African-American Life and History (ASALH).
Dr. Anthony has published several articles, book chapters, and a historical spoken word album titled Dr. TaKeia Speaks: The Inception. Her most recent publication is a book titled, The Universal Ethiopian Students’ Association, 1927-1948: Mobilizing Diaspora (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). This research expands the study of the African Diaspora by illuminating the mobilized diaspora and the UESA. As a current 2019-2021 Duke-NCCU Digital Humanities Fellow, Dr. Anthony’s forthcoming project is a digital history titled, “The Pioneers: A History of North Carolina Central University.”