Our Special Guest, Queen Quet

Where do we start? We have the honor of interviewing Queen Quet of the Gullah/Geechee Nation on the important of the Gullah heritage.  

Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine is a published author, computer scientist, lecturer, mathematician, historian,  columnist, preservationist, film consultant, and "The Art-ivist."  She is the founder of the premiere advocacy organization for the continuation of Gullah/Geechee culture, the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition.   Queen Quet has not only provided “histo-musical presentations” throughout the world, but was also the first Gullah/Geechee person to speak on behalf of her people before the United Nations in Genevé, Switzerland.

Queen Quet was one of the first of seven inductees to the Gullah/Geechee Nation Hall of Fame.  She received the "Anointed Spirit Award" for her leadership and for being a visionary.    In 2008, she was recorded at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France at a United Nations Conference in order to have the human rights story of the Gullah/Geechee people archived for the United Nations.  In 2009, she was invited by the Office of the High Commissioner of the United Nations to come and present before the newly founded “Minority Forum” as a representative of the Gullah/Geechee Nation and the International Human Rights Association for American Minorities (IHRAAM) which is an NGO in consultative status with the United Nations.  Queen Quet is a directorate member for IHRAAM and for the International Commission on Human Rights.  She represented these bodies and the Gullah/Geechee Nation at the “United Nations Forum on Minority Rights.”