The Ancestor Collection Project started as a pathway to Ancestral Repair through Genealogy.  To reclaim the names, stories and lives of people held in bondage by my ancestors. 

I am a curious and passionate student of life. I attended culinary school in France, moved to the Sinai desert in Egypt and travelled around the world before settling down in Denver, Colorado.

This is a spiritually necessary project for both sides of this history. And I welcome all inquires and conversation. I am not a certified genealogist. I do this work in my free time after my full time job. There could be errors or missing information. I am consistently updating as I find new documents and information. This website and the research I do is a portion of reparations work that I passionately believe in. This is to: Reconcile, Recognize and Redress the harm perpetuated through the centuries on innocent Black people by my ancestors. I am starting first with the Walker family of enslavers.

After discovering my ancestors were enslavers, I realized the need to recognize the souls whose lives were taken by greed and abused by power.  As I began to learn more on how to find the documents to give context to the enslaved populations, it became painstakingly clear how difficult it was and how retraumatizing that work can be for African American researchers.  My sincere desire is to ease that discovery for descendants of the people my ancestors enslaved.   

This is a pathway to heal this shameful and harmful past in hopes of realizing true racial justice so that we may all heal and create equitable and meaningful racial relationships despite this horrific history.  I attempt to reveal the truth as best I can. 

—-Katie