He has been an instructor in several SLIG courses, including those on African American research and certification. In 2023, he and LaBrenda Garrett-Nelson, JD, LLM, CG, CGL, FASG, vetted enslaver lineages for the Reuters investigative series, Slavery’s Descendants: The Ancestral Ties to Slaveholding of Today’s Political Elite (https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-slavery/).

His lineage of three generations of an African American family, from West Africa to the Great Migration, is on the Board for Certification of Genealogists’ Learning Center website, and he has published in the New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Board-certified since 2017, Scott is a BCG trustee. For the last twenty years, much of his research has focused on Darlington County, SC. His website, https://scottwilds.com/, contains abstracts of slave-related deeds and other documents and includes indexes to ration books and medical records from the Freedmen’s Bureau field office in Darlington. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, he has a master’s degree in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania and was an associate editor of the Papers of William Penn.