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Patrice E. Jones
EducationUniversity of New Orleans (BA, MA)
Occupation(s)Internet personality
educator
model
historical preservationist
RelativesGeneva Handy Southall (grandmother)
D. Antoinette Handy (grandaunt)
W. T. Handy, Jr. (granduncle)
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Last updated: September 20, 2024

Patrice E. Jones is an American educator, TikToker, model, and historical preservationist. She has served as an adjunct English instructor on the faculty at the University of Holy Cross, Delgado Community College, and the University of New Orleans.

Jones is the descendent of Mississippi Supreme Court justice Ephraim G. Peyton and a woman enslaved by him. She is an advocate for reparations for slavery in the United States. She advocates for reparations for Black people on TikTok and was featured on Dr. Phil, where she talked about how reparations helped her family. She is a trustee of Handy Heights, her family's 116-acre farm in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, which was given to her formerly enslaved great-great-grandmother from her white father. Jones documents her historic preservation projects at Handy Heights on her TikTok account, which has received millions of views.