Judith Sanford-Harris

Judith is of African and Indigenous ancestry and is an enrolled citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. She has documented her Wampanoag ancestors as far back as the early 1600s, as well as the identities of the men who enslaved several of her Black ancestors, and the men in both her family and her husband’s family who served in the U.S. Colored Troops during the Civil War.

Her research into her 5x great-grandfather, Private Solomon Attaquin, a Wampanoag man who served in the militia during the Revolutionary War, led to a successful application to, and membership in, the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) for herself and her two daughters.

She is a winner of the Phillis Wheatley Book Award for her work in Forgotten Patriots: The American Revolution Northern Theater. She is a member of the New England Chapter of the Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS), American Ancestors/New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS), a Heritage Member of Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., and a registered Citizen Archivist of the National Archives Catalog. A native of Roxbury, Massachusetts, Judith earned an AB degree in Psychology from Brown University, and an MEd in Counseling Psychology and PhD in Higher Education Administration from Boston College.