- Queen Quet is a lecturer, historian, preservationist, environmental justice advocate, mathematician, computer scientist, and film consultant.
- She founded the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, described as the premiere advocacy organization for continuation of Gullah/Geechee culture.
- Queen Quet was the first to speak for the Gullah/Geechee Nation at the United Nations and consulted on TV series Underground.
The University of Lynchburg will host a virtual presentation by Marquetta L. “Queen Quet” Goodwine, chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 29.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled “We de Land and de Land da We: Sustainable Solutions of the Gullah/Geechee.” It is co-sponsored by the University of Lynchburg’s Office of Inclusive Excellence and School of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The Zoom meeting can be joined here.
Queen Quet is a lecturer, historian, columnist, preservationist, environmentalist, environmental justice advocate, mathematician, computer scientist, and film consultant. She is the elected chieftess of the Gullah/Geechee Nation, an African American cultural heritage region that stretches from Jacksonville, North Carolina, to Jacksonville, Florida.
She is the author of numerous books and founder of the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, which has been described as the “premiere advocacy organization for the continuation of Gullah/Geechee culture.”
Queen Quet was the first of her people to speak on behalf of the Gullah/Geechee Nation at the United Nations in Switzerland.
She also was the Gullah/Geechee cultural heritage consultant for the TV series “Underground,” a period drama that follows several enslaved people on their quest for freedom via the Underground Railroad.
Dalton Cooper ’16, an alumnus, social worker, and co-chair of Lynchburg’s JEDI — Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion — Education Committee, described the upcoming lecture as a “very good opportunity to understand racial and cultural diversity.”
