Timothy Kumfer is the Henry A. Wallace Fellowship Program Director at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington, DC, where he supports emerging scholar-activists in building skills for public scholarship. From 2023-2024, he was a Mellon Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgetown University affiliated with the “Creative Placemaking, Black Restorative Ecologies, and Black Spatial Futures” Seminar. A 2022-2023 Totman Fellow at the DC History Center, he received his PhD in American Studies from The University of Maryland in 2023. His book project, which builds on his dissertation, traces the history of grassroots organizing for political autonomy and equitable development in DC in the Black Power era and beyond.
