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Gayle Jessup White

Gayle Jessup White
Gayle Jessup White is the Public Relations & Community Engagement Officer at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson’s legendary estate. A former award-winning television reporter and anchor, Jessup White started her career at the New York Times. She’s written and spoken extensively about her work at Monticello. She is a direct Jefferson descendant, and is also related to two well-documented families enslaved at Monticello—the Hemingses and the Hubbards.


On the Black Descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Uncovering the Origins of Family Lore

Gayle Jessup White Considers What It Means to Remember the Past
November 18, 2021  By Gayle Jessup White
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