She is the founder and director of the River Road African American Museum, which opened in 1994 at Tezcuco Plantation in Darrow. After a fire in 2002, the museum moved to Brazier House in Donaldsonville. The mission of the museum is to collect, interpret and preserve art, artifacts and buildings “for the purpose of promoting education about the history and culture of African Americans in the U.S. and Louisiana, with emphasis on the River Road communities between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.”