COUNCIL OF ADVISORS
The Council of Advisors is the organization’s advisory body of nationally recognized leaders and experts in history, public art, and community engagement.
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Nik Apostolides
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Nik Apostolides is a lecturer in curatorial studies at Johns Hopkins University.
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A'Lelia Bundles
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
A’Lelia Bundles, great-great-granddaughter of Madam C.J. Walker, is an award-winning journalist, author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, and founder of the Madam Walker Family Archives.
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Robert P. J. Cooney, Jr.
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Robert Cooney has served as the Director of the Woman Suffrage Media Project since 1993 and sits on the board of the National Women’s History Alliance.
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Naomi Coquillon
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Naomi Coquillon is Chief of Informal Learning at the Library of Congress.
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Madeline Di Nonno
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Madeline Di Nonno is the President and CEO of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media.
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Dr. Paula Giddings
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Paula J. Giddings is the Elizabeth A. Woodson 1922 Professor (Emerita), Africana Studies, at Smith College.
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Page Harrington
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Page Harrington is a public historian, author, and former Executive Director of the National Woman’s Party at the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument.
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Dr. Ida E. Jones
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Dr. Ida E. Jones serves as the Associate Director of Special Collections and University Archivist at Morgan State University. -
Dr. Jane Kamensky
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Dr. Jane Kamensky is the Jonathan Trumbull Professor of American History at Harvard University and the Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard Radcliffe Institute. -
Dr. Allison Lange
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Dr. Allison K. Lange is a professor and curator who served as Historian for the United States Congress’s Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission.
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Dr. Kate Lemay
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Kate Clarke Lemay is the Acting Senior Historian at the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Gwen Pier
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Gwen Pier is the Executive Director of the National Sculpture Society
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Corinne Porter
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Corinne Porter is a curator at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC.
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Dr. Ashley Robertson Preston
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Ashley Robertson Preston is an Assistant Professor of History at Howard University.
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Rebecca Boggs Roberts
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Rebecca Boggs Roberts is an award-winning educator, author, and speaker who serves on the Board of the National Archives Foundation, the Women’s Leadership Committee of the Trust for the National Mall, and on the Editorial Advisory Committee of the White House Historical Association.
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Dr. Vedet Coleman-Robinson
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Vedet Coleman-Robinson is the Executive Director of the Association of African American Museums.
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Janice E. Ruth
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Janice E. Ruth is the chief of the Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
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Robin Salmon
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Robin Salmon is the Curator of Sculpture and the Vice President of Art and Historical Collections at Brookgreen Gardens.
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Alan Spears
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Alan Spears is the Senior Director for Cultural Resources at the National Parks Conservation Association.
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Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner is a leading authority in the study of American women’s history and among the first scholars to document the impact of Indigenous peoples on the suffrage movement.
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Elaine Weiss
COUNCIL OF ADVISORS - MEMBER
Elaine is the award-winning author of the nationally acclaimed novel The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote.