About

Alonna J. Carter-Donaldson is a native Pittsburgher with a penchant for telling the hidden stories of African Americans. Her work has been seen in the New Pittsburgh Courier, The Soul Pitt Quarterly, and Public Source. In 2018, she was named an honoree for the New Pittsburgh Courier Fab 40 under 40. Mrs. Carter-Donaldson also serves as the Historian of the Edna B. McKenzie Branch of ASALH. In 2021, she was selected as the Inaugural Burke Family Research Fellow at the Frick Pittsburgh for her work on African Americans in Pittsburgh’s Gilded Age. From 2022 to 2023, she was the Project Scholar for the Western Pennsylvania Disability History and Action Consortium’s Intersection of Race and Disability Project. In addition to her professional work, she is a member of the Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA), the National Council on Public History (NCPH), the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), the Oral History Association (OHA), the American Historical Association (AHA), and the Association for African American Museums (AAAM), and the African American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS). 

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