memorial to our ancestors: the ancestors’’ garden at the international african american museum

Walter Hood is a landscape architect, public artist, and educator. As the founder and principal of Hood Design Studio, he creates urban spaces that resonate with and enrich the lives of current residents, while also honoring communal histories. Hood is a professor and former chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award (2017), MacArthur Fellowship (Genius grant, 2019), Knight Public Spaces Fellowship (2019), and Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2019).

Grace Mitchell Tada is an independent scholar, writer, and journalist.