Join The Explorers Club on Monday, February 5th to look from the early history of Black aviation, to the heroes today who are still fighting for equality and inclusion in the skies.
Club headquarters will welcome representatives from the Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals (OBAP), the Tuskegee Airmen inspired Red Tail Flight Academy, and other special guests for a panel discussion centered around the past, present, and future of black aviation.
Streaming live here on explorers.org, our YouTube Channel, and our Facebook Live — Monday, February 5th at 7:00 pm ET.
RESERVATIONS
This will be an in-person lecture at Explorers Club Headquarters.
In-person tickets are $15 for Members, and $30 for the General Public.
Check-in will begin at 6:00 pm, with a beer and wine reception from 6:00 – 7:00 pm
Julia Lauria-Blum
Julia Lauria-Blum is the Editor-In-Chief for the Metropolitan Airport News. Julia earned her degree in the Visual Arts from SUNY New Paltz and has always had an interest in the women aviation pioneers that paved the way for so many.
Her interest led her to research the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) from the WWII era. In 2001 she curated the permanent WASP exhibit at the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, NY. Also, at the American Airpower Museum, Julia curated the “Women Who Brought the War Home, Women War Correspondents, WWII’.
Julia is the former curatorial assistant at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, NY where she worked on many of exhibit’s visuals, as well as the museum’s historical archives.
Tanya Austin
Gigi Coleman
