Mayor Wu has named ten people to serve on the city’s new Reparations Task Force, a group with a focus on studying the lasting impacts of slavery in Boston. Wu assembled the task force to include a variety of leaders in academia, education, organizing to “encompass the Black experience in Boston,” according to a Tuesday press release from her office.

The task force’s creation comes after Wu’s signing of a 2022 City Council ordinance, sponsored and led by Councillor Julia Mejia.

“Our administration remains committed to tackling long standing racial inequities and this task force is the next step in our commitment as a city to advance racial justice and build a Boston for everyone,” Wu said in a statement.

The task force will be chaired by Joseph D. Feaster, Jr., Esq, Dorchester resident and current member of City’s Black Men & Boys Commission. Other members include Denilson Fanfan, L’Merchie Frazier, George “Chip” Greenidge, Jr., Dr. Kerri Greenidge, Dr. David Harris, Dorothea Jones, Carrie Mays, Na’tisha Mills, and Damani Williams, an 11th grader at Jeremiah E. Burke High School.

According to Chairman Feaster, the group seeks to find recommendations for grappling with Boston’s past while also “charting a path forward” for Black people. For more information on the task force, visit boston.gov/reparations.