Jennifer Tosch
Jennifer Tosch is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and currently resides in Amsterdam, Netherlands (NL), working on a dual Masters in Heritage and Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
She is co-founder of Sites of Memory and Founder of Black Heritage Tours. The tours make the ‘hidden history visible’ as guests explore the city’s Black presence and colonial history in the ‘built environment’. She is a member of the Mapping Slavery Project Netherlands and co-author of 3 books: Amsterdam and The Netherlands Slavery Heritage Guides (2014, 2019) and Dutch New York Histories (2017). Jennifer was born in Brooklyn, New York to Surinamese parents whose ancestors also came from Suriname.