About Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest

MY Story

Since 1991

Bridging institutions and communities.

Angela D. LeBlanc-Ernest, is an independent scholar, documentarian, oral historian, and multi-media content creator. She holds a Bachelor’s in Afro-American Studies (Harvard University) and a MA in History (Stanford University) and has spent 35+ years bridging the divide between academic institutions and communities. Her writings have appeared as chapters and articles in peer-reviewed books and academic journals, and in public-facing publications such as Vibe Magazine, Colorlines, Souls, Ms. Magazine, and Black Youth Project. Angela serves as an archival consultant for documentary films and book projects. She is the founding director of The OCS Project LLC, a research project to recover, preserve, and share the history of the BPP’s flagship educational program, the Oakland Community School (OCS), and is the recipient of a 2022 Oral History Association – National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship and a 2025 National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Publication Fellowship for her work on OCS history. LeBlanc-Ernest is also a mixed-medium and multi-media artist whose mixed-media and multi-media oral history projects draw on memory, history, artifacts, and first-person narrative and explores themes of intergenerational work, community, collective history, and the appearance and power of art in everyday life. Since 2023, LeBlanc-Ernest has been  a steering committee member for the Community Archives Collaborative (CAC), a global peer support and resource-sharing network for memory workers, educators, and activists.