Ashley Rogers is the Executive Director at the Whitney Plantation, a memorial site in South Louisiana that is exclusively dedicated to interpreting slavery. She has led the museum since its opening in December 2014. She has spearheaded a project at the museum to explore the legacies of enslavement by documenting the lives of Whitney Plantation’s cane workers in the twentieth century. Ashley is currently pursuing a PhD in history at Louisiana State University. Her dissertation will focus on plantation labor in South Louisiana after slavery. As a museum practitioner, Ashley is concerned with equitable interpretation and institutional practices. She is a co-author and editor of the MASS Action Toolkit, The Inclusive Historian’s Handbook, and James Madison’s Montpelier’s Engaging Descendant Communities Rubric. Prior to working for the Whitney Plantation, Ashley was the Assistant Director of Denver Regional Museums at History Colorado.