Speaker – Meadow Dibble

Meadow Dibble, Ph.D. is a writer, organizer, and public memory advocate who has been facilitating complex, searching conversations about modes of historical recovery while developing sustained local engagement processes aimed at surfacing truth, fostering healing, and achieving justice. She is Founding Executive Director of Atlantic Black Box.

Originally from Cape Cod, Meadow lived for six years on Senegal’s Cape Verde peninsula, where she published a cultural magazine from 1996–2000 and coordinated foreign study programs. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University’s Department of French Studies and taught at Colby College from 2005–08. From 2019–2023, Meadow served as Visiting Scholar at Brown University’s Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.

In 2022-2023, she served as Co-Lead on the Place Justice initiative, carried out in partnership with the Permanent Commission on the Status of Racial, Indigenous, and Tribal Populations.