Among the first things you notice when you enter Fran Kaplan’s home are the stacks of books, a wide-ranging and voluminous library focused on history and social justice. As deep as Fran’s knowledge may be, she is dedicated to serious study and reflection. She is committed to keeping up on the scholarship related to her work. What that work is is evident in the name of the organization she runs with Reggie Jackson: Nurturing Diversity. Fran has taken on many roles over the years. She’s been an adult educator, a social worker, a community activist, a lecturer, a consultant, an author and a filmmaker. She’s been involved in African American and Jewish issues, child protection, women’s health and farmworker rights. She has an MSW and an Ed.D. One of her primary passions has been to keep the legacy of America’s Black Holocaust Museum alive online. Her involvement began when she spent a week interviewing Dr. James Cameron, a lynching survivor and the museum’s founder, for a documentary about him. After he died and the original museum closed, she was instrumental in taking the museum’s mission and exhibits online, so it would be accessible to people around the world. That work also opened a collaborative relationship with Reggie, the museum’s head griot. The two formed Nurturing Diversity, which seeks to educate diverse audiences about the history of racism, including white suburban and rural populations in Wisconsin. When people ask about her involvement as a white woman, she’ll note that Dr. Cameron worked with “freedom-loving whites” and that white residents of a hyper-segregated city have a particular responsibility to dismantle systemic inequity. Her honors include the 2016 Eliminating Racism Award from the YWCA of Southeast Wisconsin and a 2018 Jewish Community Relations Council social justice award shared with Reggie for their racial justice work.