Celebrate Juneteenth! National Geographic Explorer and storyteller Tara Roberts follows a team on a quest to document and identify sunken slave shipwrecks. Part adventure story, part scientific log and part personal memoir, “Written in the Waters” catalogues Tara’s journey with divers, historians and archeologists who are searching the Middle Passage for the wrecks of ships that carried enslaved Africans. A book sale and signing will follow the event. Cosponsored by The Alden. 

ABOUT TARA ROBERTS

Tara Roberts is a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. She has spent the last few years diving with and telling stories about Black scuba divers as they searched for and helped document slave shipwrecks around the world. Her journey was turned into a National Geographic-produced podcast called “Into the Depths” and featured in the March issue of National Geographic. Tara became the first Black female explorer ever to be featured on the cover of the magazine. And in 2022, she was named the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year. Tara was also named a Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab in 2019. She spent her early career years working as an editor for women and teen magazines like Essence and CosmoGirl.

INVITE

This author presentation is at The Alden at the McLean Community Center, 1234 Ingleside Ave., McLean, VA 22101. Registration is required to attend. Register each person attending this event.