Benjamin Mchie, Founder & Director | African American Directory
Benjamin Mchie is founder of African American Registry and a Multi Media Professional for over 38 years. Mchie has been featured on the BBC, TV Asahi and HBO VICE News. As creator of the Teacher's Forum, his influence ranges from E-12 classrooms to Post-Secondary schools. He sees a shift in young people striving to link scholarship, activism and civic engagement. He has been a panelist at National and Global conferences on race and education. Mchie's work teaches African American heritage by blending its history and rich culture. The Registry's personal narratives exhibit people, episodes and locations to preserve African America's stories for teaching and learning. He embraces a nursing scholarship for people of color in honor his Aunt Francis, who was the first African American person to to graduate in 1932 from the U of MN in the nursing program and the first African American nurse to be hired in MN. https://makingagift.umn.edu/give/yourgift.html?&cart=22842#formstep-0