Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North won best documentary last night at the 6th Bahamas International Film Festival.

Producer/director Katrina Browne was present to accept the “Spirit of Freedom: Documentary” award, one of four categories in which 68 films from 26 countries competed.

Actor Johnny Depp was honored with the film festival’s career achievement award.

The DeWolf family’s slaving voyages included at least one stop in the Bahamas.

Today, filmmaker Katrina Browne is the author of a commentary on CNN.com, entitled “Slavery needs more than an apology.”

In this opinion essay, Katrina writes about the significance of the U.S. Senate apology for slavery and discrimination, and offers her thoughts, as a descendant of U.S. slave traders, about what comes next.

Please note: This is an archived blog post, and these are not active job listings.

MANAGERS AND PROGRAM SPECIALISTS SOUGHT

Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North is an Emmy-nominated documentary film which has become the basis for outreach efforts focused on advancing the cause of racial justice and reconciliation and expanding understanding of the history and legacy of the North’s role in slavery.  Thanks to a recent major grant, we are in a position to expand our work beyond the first-year of release, to pursue more systemic institutional impacts.

The various positions/function areas described below are not full-time.  We list them all together here with the hope that applicants might be interested in, and capable of, filling various roles— possibly combining small part-time positions in such a way as to create fuller part-time positions, or a full-time position.  For example, the Program Director role could be combined with the Training Coordinator position for a 20-30 hr/wk position.  We are also open to applicants who are only interested in one position.  We hope that these positions will grow with more funding.

To Apply: Please submit a cover letter, resume, three references, and a writing sample to Madeline McNeely at human.resources@tracesofthetrade.org. When emailing, please put in subject line: Candidate – last name, first name (such as “Candidate – Jones, Julia”).

Deadline: The preferred application deadline for these positions is September 1, 2009. After that date please send an email to Madeline McNeely at human.resources@tracesofthetrade.org to see if positions might still be available.

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