Twink Williams Burns joined American Ancestors as a member of the Research Services team in June 2024. She will complete her Masters degree in Education at Harvard University in 2025, and earned her B.A. in English from Williams College in 2006. Having spent 18 years as an educator, her specialty is sharing genealogical stories in compelling ways at live events, including at the Clark Art Museum, the Williamstown Historical Museum, and other public and private programs. She is an education advocate and an heirloom seed fanatic.

Areas of Expertise: African American genealogy, Oklahoma and Freedmen of the Five Tribes, Mississippi, and generational Americans with enslaved and/or enslaver ancestors