Pop-Up Talks: Tara Roberts

Name: Pop-Up Talks: Tara Roberts
Start: 2026-10-23T12:30:00-04:00
End: 2026-10-23T13:30:00-04:00
Location: National Geographic Museum of Exploration

Fri, Oct 23 · 12:30 PM National Geographic Museum of Exploration · Dupont Circle

This week, National Geographic Explorer in Residence and storyteller Tara Roberts will share her learning and discoveries from searching for slave shipwrecks around the world with a team of Black scuba divers.

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