Elizabeth C. Babcock, PhD., Director, Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum
Leadership Staff:
- Karri Brady, Chief Advancement Officer
- Nicole Kang Ferraiolo, Head of Digital Strategies
- Ally Green, Senior Advisor, Museum Planning
- Liza O’Leary, Director of Operations
- Ellie Reynolds, Head of Communications and Brand Engagement
Founding Advisory Council:
- Jane Abraham, Co-Chair and Former Chair, Congressional Commission to Study the Potential of a National Women’s History Museum
- Penny Pritzker, Co-Chair and Founder and Chairman, PSP Partners; Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
- Catherine Allgor, President Emerita, Massachusetts Historical Society and Non-Profit Executive
- Barbara Barrett, Owner, Triple Creek Ranch, A Montana Hideaway
- 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
- Bridget M. Bush, Counsel, Landrum & Shouse LLP
- Lynda Carter, Actor and Singer-Songwriter
- Jean Case, Chairman, National Geographic Society; CEO, Case Impact Network and The Case Foundation
- Rosario Dawson, Producer, Designer, Activist
- Martha McKenzie Hill, Counsel, Mitchell Williams Selig Gates Woodyard
- Billie Jean King, Founder, Billie Jean King Enterprises, Inc.
- Hon. Carolyn B. Maloney, Eleanor Roosevelt Distinguished Leader, Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
- 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
- Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes, Majority Leader, New York State Assembly
- Odie Brant Porter, Councilor of the Seneca Nation of Indians
- Abbe Raven, Chairman Emeritus, A+E Networks
- Vivian Riefberg, Professor of Practice, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
- Mona Sinha, Global Executive Director, Equality Now
- Cara Sylvester, EVP and Chief Guest Experience Officer, Target
- Alice L. Walton, Founder, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Art Bridges Foundation, and the Alice L. Walton Foundation; Member, Walton Family Foundation
- Edna Kane Williams, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer,
AARP - Lonnie G. Bunch III, (ex officio) Secretary, Smithsonian Institution
Alumni:
- Melissa Fetter, Founder and Owner, Beacon Hill Books & Cafe
- Craig Newmark, Founder, craigslist and Craig Newmark Philanthropies
- Martine A. Rothblatt, Chairperson and CEO, United Therapeutics, Creator for SiriusXM
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, Pomona 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