Brenda Welburn spent thirty-five years in education, specializing in governance and state education policy. A graduate of Howard University and former Executive Director of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), education is at the core of her professional and personal passions.

Coming from a close-knit family that revered the memory of its ancestors and cherishing a fondness for history; writing her first book was a labor of love. The Time Travels of Annie Sesstry is brimming with factual accounts of the periods of slavery and reconstruction and is based on her family’s determination to find their roots and know their history.