Regina Lynch-Hudson

Lynch-Hudson works as a publicist and a travel writer.^[1][7] She founded the public relations firm The Write Publicist.^[8]

She is also a historian, curating five exhibits at the Swannanoa Valley Museum focused on her family and their history in the Swannanoa Valley and Western North Carolina.^[1] She also curated an exhibit at the North Carolina Transportation Museum.^[1] She was on the team of curators who installed a permanent exhibit at the Biltmore Estate honoring people of color who built the estate.^[1] She is also co-administrator of The John Carson of Western North Carolina Project and the Carson Plantations Project with FamilyTreeDNA.^[6]

In 2009, she authored Family Gems: A Pictorial History of Western North Carolina Ancestors.^[8]

In April 2024, Lynch-Hudson presented on diversity and representation in museums at the North Carolina Museum Council Conference in Cherokee, North Carolina.^[1]

Lynch Hudson is married to Ret. Colonel Courtland C. Bivens III, a patent-holding NASA inventor and aerospace engineer.^[9][3] They live in Roswell, Georgia.^[10]

In August 2006, she and her husband appeared on the HGTV show What's With That House?, showcasing their home, The Daffodil Villa.^[3]

In 2024, she became the first black woman to join the Greenlee Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Old Fort, North Carolina.^[7] She is the first person of color descended from Colonel Carson to join the national society.^[7] During her historic induction into the Daughters of the American Revolution, Lynch-Hudson wore a scarf replica of a quilt on display at the Carson House that was made by a foremother enslaved there named Kadella.^[1]