 The Bray School Lab
"The William & Mary Bray School Lab is a key component of the Williamsburg Bray School Initiative, a ground-breaking and innovative partnership between William & Mary and The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation with the shared goal of uncovering, documenting, preserving, and disseminating the history and legacy of the Williamsburg Bray School. As we reconstruct the Bray School’s history, we aspire to transform traditional accounts of America’s history into a multi-layered story that centers Black legacy at the heart of U.S. democracy."
Sharpe Scholars who work with the Bray School Lab will work with historical, transcription, data science, and biological data to uncover the neglected histories of the school, its inhabitants, and its legacy.
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 Cenevia
 Cenevia supports health providers in managing electronic health data, training healthcare professionals, and managing business partnerships across industries, including Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), private practices, hospitals, managed care organizations, and provider networks. Cenevia aims to “eliminat[e]s operational burdens so [that] healthcare delivery [providers] can focus on providing high-quality and cost-effective health outcomes.”
Sharpe Scholars who work with Cenevia will support Cenevia’s effort with developing business-to-business communications that raise awareness around prevailing issues (such as AI technology) and current health policy issues in the field of healthcare delivery.
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 W&M Civic & Community Engagement
 "Together with members of William & Mary and our broader communities, W&M Civic & Community Engagement cultivates equitable and transformational relationships, and provides programming and resources for students to become lifelong community-centered leaders."
Their vision is "a just and sustainable world, thriving communities, and a campus that embraces lifelong civic learning and action."
Sharpe Scholars who work with W&M Civic & Community Engagement will be able to participate in their Griffin School Partnership program, where W&M students work with local schools to reach literacy and equity goals.
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 Highland
 William & Mary’s Highland is a historic site located outside of Charlottesville, Virginia. It is notable as the home of W&M alumnus and 5th U.S. President (1817-1825) James Monroe, and the site tells the stories of people and events reflecting significant years in the development of the United States. Highland — along with the Omohundro Institute, the Muscarelle Museum of Art, and the Bray School Lab — is a component of W&M’s Office of Strategic Cultural Partnerships. It has been part of the university since 1974 and provides a community setting for public history and serves as an active laboratory for creative and thoughtful exploration of history and its meaning in today’s world. At Highland, we are always learning new things and telling better stories.
"Highland, as a public history arm of William & Mary, is committed to thoughtful and inclusive public engagement in the pursuit of history that serves broad and overlapping communities. We welcome continued discussions about the legacies of slavery at Highland and invite students, faculty and staff to join us on the path to reconciliation. We are also open to new interpretations as we recover histories long buried, dismissed and/or forgotten."
Sharpe Scholars who work with Highland will assist and the research and development for their annual Descendants Day event, where descendants of the people enslaved at Highland and environs will be able to come together for remembrance, mourning, celebration, and community. Students will have an opportunity to collaborate with Highland staff, the Council of Descendant Advisors and other community groups as well as connect with on-campus organizations who might also be interested in Descendants Day participation.
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 The Lemon Project
"The Lemon Project is a multifaceted and dynamic attempt to rectify wrongs perpetrated against African Americans by William & Mary through action or inaction. An ongoing endeavor, this program will focus on contributing to and encouraging scholarship on the 300-year relationship between African Americans and W&M, and building bridges between the university and Williamsburg and Greater Tidewater area. The Lemon Project is a member of the Universities Studying Slavery Consortium. The Lemon Project is generously funded by the Office of the Provost at William & Mary."
Sharpe Scholars who work with the Lemon Project will be able to work with project faculty and staff to conduct research on matters related to race and enslavement in Williamsburg, work with project promotion and marketing, build essential transcription and accessibility infrastructure, and engage with historical and archaeological data.
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 The Let Freedom Ring Foundation
"We will preserve, conserve and protect the First Baptist Church historic building, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance. We will work with our partners in the community to understand and educate everyone about our past. We will endeavor to spark a continuing conversation that looks at our history in different ways, asking ourselves questions about what is important in our history. This is an important way for us to transmit our understanding of the past to future generations. Historic preservation helps us to tell the stories of our past, celebrating events, people, places, and ideas that we are proud of; other times it involves recognizing moments in our history that can be painful or uncomfortable to remember. It is important to understand and share our place in the history of Williamsburg and the nation."
Sharpe Scholars who work with the Let Freedom Ring Foundation will engage with critical efforts involving public education, archaeological research, and/or program grant development.
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 The LGBTIQ Research Project
The W&M LGBTQ Research Project was created eight years ago with the goal of putting together archival materials and oral histories to document Virginia’s LGBTQ past. Since its creation over 150 undergraduate and graduate students have participated in the project. They have collected archival materials from VCU’s Cabel Library, the VA Historical Society, the Valentine Museum, and the Library of Virginia (among other locations), and with the cooperation of our community partner, Diversity Richmond, have had over 110 oral histories shared with student interviewers. While COVID put a pause on their activities, they have returned to this work in the last year with the goal of creating a digitally accessible space for these materials to call home.
Sharpe Scholars who work with the project will be engaging with collected materials to create digital exhibits (“LGBTQ Richmond During the 1970s” as one example or “Richmond LGBTQ Bar Culture” as another possibility) to allow a much greater access to this material to the larger public.
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