Virgin has applied her educational background and journalism skills to research, write and present stories of notable Blacks in Canadian/U.S. history. She has published biographies of Charles Victor Roman, Charles Lightfoot Roman and Rev. John Christie Holland with Historica Canada. These articles have been published in The Canadian Encyclopedia. Nerene has worked with the Dundas Museum and Archives to nominate C. V. Roman as a laureate to the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. She is now working with the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board to embed Black History into the regular school curriculum. Virgin’s educational presentations are often based on the exploits of her great-great grandfather, Private Lewis Toliver and his eleven-year service in the “All Coloured Militia” during the Upper Canada Rebellion 1837–38 and the building of the Second Welland Canal. This endeavor is a pilot project for the Ministry of Education (Ontario).