Perri Meldon
PhD Candidate
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Perri Meldon is a PhD candidate at Boston University and a fellow with the National Park Service. Through her NPS work, she has collaborated with parks nationwide to expand disability history initiatives. To learn more about these projects, check out her publications in the blogs of the National Council on Public History, the Disability History Association, and the American Historical Association. For more on her NPS work, visit the Telling All Americans’ Stories Disability History Series. You can reach Perri at [email protected] or on Twitter at @perri_mel.
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America’s Field Trip Awardees!
Thousands of students from across the country submitted inspiring entries, responding to the prompt “What does America mean to you?” for the first-ever America’s Field Trip contest. A panel of current and former educators selected 150 students as awardees, hailing from 44 states and territories.