Dancer, percussionist, educator, banjoist and storyteller, Sule Greg Wilson has been an American Griot all his life, learning family lore at the feet of maternal grandfather T. Montgomery Gregory, founder/director of the famous Howard Players, Howard University’s first theater company. Wilson performed with the Oya African Dancers and Drummers through Junior and Senior High School, played jazz and studied Asian percussion at Oberlin College, and received a Bachelors in TV Production and an MA in History/Certificate in Archival Management, Historical Editing and Manuscript Conservation from New York University. Wilson has worked as a historical consultant/archivist at the New York Stock Exchange; the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; the World Bank; the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History; the Delta Blues Museum; the documentary film Give Me the Banjo; and Phoenix, AZ’s Pueblo Grande Museum.
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