Melanie Adams, Interim Director, Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum
Leadership Staff:
- Karri Brady, Acting Director of Advancement
- Nicole Kang Ferraiolo, Head of Digital Strategies
- Ally Green, Senior Advisor, Museum Planning
- Liza O’Leary, Director of Business Operations
- Ellie Reynolds, Head of Communications and Brand Engagement
Advisory Council:
- Jane Abraham, Former Chair, American Women's History Museum Congressional Commission
- Catherine Allgor, President, Massachusetts Historical Society
- Ambassador Barbara M. Barrett, Member, Smithsonian Board of Regents; 25th Secretary of the Air Force
- Mary Boies, Counsel, Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
- Sheri Bronstein, Chief Human Resources Officer, Bank of America
- Tory Burch, Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Tory Burch LLC
- Lynda Carter, Actress, Singer, Songwriter and Producer
- Jean Case, Chairman, National Geographic Society; CEO, Case Impact Network and The Case Foundation
- Rosario Dawson, Actress, Designer, Activist and Producer
- Edna Kane-Williams, Chief Diversity Officer, AARP
- Billie Jean King, Founder, Billie Jean King Enterprises, Inc. Sports Icon & Equality Champion
- Singleton B. Mcallister, Of Counsel, Husch Blackwell LLP
- Kyle McSlarrow, Former Comcast Senior Executive
- Pat Mitchell, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Connected Women Leaders, and Project Dandelion, Co-Founder and Editorial Director at TEDWomen
- Craig Newmark, Founder and CSR, Craigslist
- Penny Pritzker, Founder and Chairman, PSP Partners; Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Abbe Raven, Chairman Emeritus, A+E Networks; Former Chair, National Museum of American History
- Vivian Riefberg, Director Emeritus, McKinsey & Company; David C. Walentas Jefferson Scholars Chair, Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia
- Martine A. Rothblatt, Ph.D., Chairperson & CEO, United Therapeutics Creator for SiriusXM
- S. Mona Sinha, Global Executive Director, Equality Now
- Cara Sylvester, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Digital Officer, Target Corporation
- Alice L. Walton, Founder, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Art Bridges Foundation and the Alice L. Walton Foundation Member, Walton Family Foundation
Alumni:
- Melissa Fetter, Owner, Beacon Hill Books
- Craig Newmark, Founder and CSR, Craigslist
- Martine A. Rothblatt, Ph.D., Chairperson & CEO, United Therapeutics Creator for SiriusXM
The Council Members Appointed by Congress:
- Bridget M. Bush, Counsel, Landrum & Shouse, LLP Appointed by the U.S. Senate
- Martha Hill, Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. Appointed by the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
- Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney, Appointed by the U.S. House of Representatives
- Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes, Majority Leader, New York State Assembly Appointed by the U.S. Senate
- Odie Brant Porter, Councillor of the Seneca Nation of Indians
Committee of Scholars:
- Nadia B. Ahmad, associate professor of law, Barry University School of Law
- Keisha N. Blain, professor of Africana studies and history, Brown University
- Nancy F. Cott, Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History Emerita, Harvard University
- David L. Eng, Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania
- Paula J. Giddings, Elizabeth A. Woodson Professor Emerita of Africana Studies, Smith College
- Kimberly Gilmore, senior vice president, Corporate Social Responsibility and chief historian, The HISTORY Channel/A+E Networks
- Jane Kamensky, president, Thomas Jefferson Foundation|Monticello
- Michelle Nickerson, professor of history, Loyola University Chicago
- Guillermina G. Núñez-Mchiri, dean at Imperial Valley Campus and professor, Department of Women’s Studies, San Diego State University
- Katherine Ott, curator and historian, Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
- Meranda Roberts, member of the Yerington Paiute Tribe and visiting professor of Art History, Pamona College
- Kimberly A. Scott, professor of women and gender studies, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
- Susan Stryker, distinguished visiting faculty, Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University
- Gayle Wald, professor of American Studies and English, George Washington University
- Mary Ziegler, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, University of California, Davis