“I think my mom would be a mentor for me just in those early ages of really trying to get me to understand our history,” says Imani Black, Founder and President of Minorities in Aquaculture. In this oral history she recounts the leading Black men and women that helped shape her personal journey working on the Chesapeake Bay. Hear more stories on the voices of Urban Waterways at https://anacostia.si.edu/urbanwaterways/.