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Richard Cellini

Founding Executive Director

Richard Cellini is the Founding Director of the 10 Million Names Project. Previously, he founded and led the Georgetown Memory Project, an independent research initiative that identified more than 10,000 descendants of enslaved people. He is an attorney, business executive, and scholar of institutional accountability for slavery. Richard holds an A.B. and a J.D. from Georgetown University, and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge (UK).

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