Atlantis School For Gifted Youngsters

Saladin Allah is an Educator, Author, and Award-Winning Producer born in Niagara Falls, New York. He is the third-great grandson of Underground Railroad Freedom Seeker Rev. James Harper, minister-in-charge of the Salem Chapel, British Methodist Episcopal Church (BME) in St. Catharines, Ontario Canada and key ally of Harriet Tubman when she lived and attended services there in the 1850s. He is also the third-great grandson of famed Underground Railroad Freedom Seeker Josiah Henson whom Harriet Beecher Stowe used as the primary narrative for her famous 19th-century novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Saladin has authored twenty-four books; five of which are part of a Curatorial Activism archive in the British Library. Saladin was a featured historian in the award-winning IMAX film 'Into America’s Wild' narrated by Morgan Freeman, and a featured historian in the six-part award-winning docuseries ‘Enslaved’ executive produced by and starring Samuel L. Jackson directed by three-time Emmy award-winning journalist Simcha Jacobovici. Saladin was globally featured in a United Nations short documentary for International Day of People of African Descent, a co-host in the award-winning The Nature of Things CBC documentary ‘Secrets Agents of the Underground Railroad’, and co-producer of the two-time Emmy Award-Winning Abbey Mecca and Buffalo & Erie County Naval Park documentary ‘Two Wars: The Road to Integration’. Saladin is currently the Director of Community Engagement at the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center, Chair of the Descendants Council for the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad NY Byway, Public Projects Coordinator at the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area, Adjunct Professor in the Political Science Dept. at Niagara University, an International Civil Society Working Group member for the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent, and Founding Director of the Atlantis School For Gifted Youngsters.