Jennifer Tosch is a cultural heritage historian, entrepreneur, and activist with Surinamese, African and Native American roots. She lives in Amsterdam where she founded Black Heritage Tours in 2013 and in 2016 she launched Black Heritage Tours in New York State (formerly, the Dutch colony, New Netherland). She is also a member of the Mapping Slavery Project (MSP), also based in the Netherlands, which connects and maps the Dutch colonial empire around the world. In 2014 she co-authored a book with her MSP team: ‘Amsterdam Slavery Heritage Guide’, and is currently co-writing the next publication in the series, ‘Mapping Dutch New York: Connecting Histories of Slavery, African & Native American Heritage’.