Claire Antone Payton Ph.D. is the senior program manager at TYDE.
Claire is also a historian of the Caribbean and the creator of the Haiti Memory Project, an oral history initiative that documented first person testimonies of the deadly Port-au-Prince earthquake and life in its aftermath. Her scholarship on Haiti has been published in the Oral History Review, the Journal of Oral History, NACLA Report on the Americas, and The Radical History Review. Her manuscript on the political history of Port-au-Prince is under contract with University of California Press. Her research has been supported by a Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship, a postdoctoral fellowship at UVA’s Woodson Institute for African American and African Studies, and Kluge fellowship at the Library of Congress.
She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and enjoys the challenge of program-building and the implementation of collaborative research agendas. Before joining TYDE she was a project manager at the Karsh Institute of Democracy’s Memory Project.