Judge Constance Baker Motley with Constance Royster & Frank Mitchell - Mondays at Beinecke 2.27.2023

This Mondays at Beinecke presentation is done in conjunction with an exhibition at the newly reopened Dixwell Q House, “Timeless: Telling Our Neighborhood Stories; Chapter 1: Constance Baker Motley,” organized by Frank Mitchell with Constance Royster.

Mitchell is a New Haven-based cultural organizer in visual arts and public humanities. He is a curatorial adviser for the Toni N. and Wendell C. Harp Historical Museum at the Dixwell Community House and Director Emeritus of The Amistad Center for Art & Culture. Mitchell holds a Ph.D. in American Culture from the University of Michigan, M.A. in African American Studies from Yale , and a B.A. from Bowdoin . He has curated numerous exhibitions, co-edited African-American Connecticut Explored, and taught at the University of Connecticut, Trinity College, Franklin & Marshall College, and the University of the Arts.



Royster, a niece of Judge Motley, is a fundraising, education, non-profit, and organizational consultant. She was director of major giving for WSHU Public Radio, and a development leader at Yale in the environment and divinity schools. A lawyer by training, Royster was an associate at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, and a founding partner at Cooper, Liebowitz, Royster & Wright, Born and raised in New Haven, she received her juris doctor from Rutgers and B.A. from Yale.