Melanie adams biography
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Melanie adams biography
Melanie Adams
American historian (born 1969)
Melanie Adams (born 1969) is an American educator and museum administrator. She is director of the Anacostia Community Museum in Washington, D.C., a unit of the Smithsonian Institution, and was named interim director of the yet-to-open Smithsonian American Women's History Museum in July 2023.[1]
Early life and education
Melanie A.
Adams was born in 1969, the daughter of a teacher and a librarian, and she grew up in East Hanover, New Jersey.[2][3]
Adams received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and African-American studies from the University of Virginia.[4] She went on to earn a Master of Education degree from the University of Vermont and a doctorate degree in educational leadership and policy studies from the University of Missouri–St.
Louis.[5] Her 2014 doctoral dissertation was titled "Advocating for Educational Equity: African American Citizens' Councils in St. Louis, M