S.E. Harris

S.E. Harris is a public historian based out of Northern Oregon. She was born in Arizona where she studied American social and political history before moving to the Pacific Northwest. She priorities collaboration in her work and seeks to share authority with the communities that her work represents. In 2022, when she graduated from Portland State University with her M.A. in Public History, she began the process of publishing her graduate research on historic restaurants in Oregon and the state’s first Black-owned bakery: the Milwaukie Pastry Kitchen. She sits on the board of the Milwaukie Museum and leads accessible walking tours in the historic downtown.