Recipient Information
Location
Port Allen, Louisiana
Year of Award
2022
Grant or Fellowship
Leaders of Color Fellowship
Grant Amount
$0
Ferin Jones
Curator of Exhibits, West Baton Rouge Museum
I’m Ferin Jones, a Black museum professional from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. I started my adult journey as a freshman at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, an HBCU in Tallahassee, Florida. After two years I transferred to my hometown to attend Louisiana State University where I earned a Bachelor of Arts in History. During my time at LSU, I interned at Louisiana’s Old State Capitol for one semester digitizing their archives. A few months after graduating in the Spring of 2015, I was hired as a Tour Guide at The West Baton Rouge Museum. Since then, I’ve held various roles from managing social media and publicity while still working on school field trips and tours. In the fall of 2018, I began a graduate program at LSU in the Department of History while I continued to work at the West Baton Rouge Museum. In the Summer of 2020, I earned a Master of Arts in History. I was promoted to Curator of Exhibits in November of 2020. Since then, I've led and assisted the curatorial team on temporary exhibits."