Barbara Lau is executive director of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, a National Historic Landmark site in Durham, NC that honors the legacy of activist, lawyer, poet, and priest, Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Lau brings 20 years of experience as a folklorist, curator, professor, oral historian, media producer, and author to this work. Lau’s credits include producing To Buy the Sun, an original play about Pauli Murray; co-directing the Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life community mural project; and curating Pauli Murray: Imp, Crusader, Dude, Priest, and two major exhibitions about Cambodian American traditions. She earned a BA in Urban Studies and Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis and an MA in Folklore at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.

Lau teaches undergraduate courses about Durham and LGBTQ history and culture. Barbara Lau is executive director of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, a National Historic Landmark site in Durham, NC that honors the legacy of activist, lawyer, poet, and priest, Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray. Lau brings 20 years of experience as a folklorist, curator, professor, oral historian, media producer, and author to this work.