Black women leadership in the academy and beyond

Carla Hayden, Librarian of Congress: image source

Back in July, I was having a conversation with a group about black women in leadership positions throughout the academy and with some related institutes and foundations. I started organizing a partial list.

• Elizabeth Alexander – president – Mellon Foundation
• Danielle Allen – director - Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics
• Carmen T. Ambar – president – Oberlin College
• Makeda Best  – Curator of Photography – Harvard Art Museums
• Evelynn Hammonds – Chair – first African American chair of the Department of the History of Science – Harvard
• Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham – Chair – first African American woman chair of History – Harvard
• Tomiko Brown-Nagin – – Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
• Claudine Gay – Dean – Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Thelma Golden – Director and Chief Curator – The Studio Museum in Harlem
• Annette Gordon-Reed – President of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
• Carla Hayden – Librarian of Congress – Library of Congress
• Shirley Ann Jackson – president – Rensselaer Polytechnic institute
• Alondra Nelson – president – Social Science Research Council
• Angela Onwuachi-Willig – Dean – Boston University Law School
• Cecilia E. Rouse – Dean – Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University
• Ruth J. Simmons - president - Prairie View A&M University
• Valerie Smith – president – Swarthmore College
• Cynthia Spence – Director – UNCF/Mellon Programs
• Michelle A. Williams – Dean - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Sarah Willie-LeBreton – provost – Swarthmore College

Related:
• Black women literature scholars -- distinguished professors and endowed chairs
• African American Poets and Academic Appointments