Nikki Williams Sebastian
Nikki Williams Sebastian was awarded the Board of Certified Genealogists first ever Paul Edward Sluby African American Scholarship. She is a graduate of the Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy program and a graduate of the ProGen 56 study group. She has conducted investigative research at the historic Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri where she published an article in the St. Louis Genealogical Society Quarterly. She is active in several lineage societies including the Atlanta chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, where she is a member of the Specialty Research Committee’s African American research team. Nikki is the Recording Secretary in her local chapter of the National Society Daughters of the Union and is also the DNA Project Coordinator for the Sons and Daughters of the United States Middle Passage lineage society. Mrs. Sebastian is originally from St. Louis, Missouri. She graduated from Tulane University with a BA and received a Master’s in Public Health from Emory University.