Angelica Hankins

Elizabeth Arroyo (Leah) joined NEH after working as a writer/editor at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She previously worked at the American Alliance of Museums, where she was a senior editor, and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, where she was the first grant writer and helped manage seminars and applications. She has also taught courses on the Civil War and Reconstruction and on southern, African-American, and women’s history at Trinity and Carleton Colleges and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Geoff Burrows is a program officer in the Division of Lifelong Learning. A historian of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States, his publications include The Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration: New Deal Public Works, Modernization, and Colonial Reform (University of Florida Press, 2024). He received a PhD from the CUNY Graduate Center and has taught at Seton Hall University, Queens College, Hunter College, and the College of Staten Island.