About the Instructor: Tenace Cunningham Pyles is an experienced educator, researcher, nonprofit leader, and community developer with a strong commitment to genealogy, African American family history, education, and legacy preservation. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a master’s degree in Public Administration and has completed advanced doctoral studies in Higher Education. Her teaching experience includes developing and facilitating education programs, workshops, and community-based learning experiences for adults.
She is the founder and facilitator of the Sankofa Genealogy Circle and the genealogy initiative “We Are Our Ancestors’ Wildest Dreams.” Her approach combines research skills, storytelling, hands-on-activities, and practical tools to make genealogy accessible to beginner researchers. She encourages participants not simply to collect names and dates, but to discover the people, places, experiences, and stories that shaped their families.