National Advisors

Bettina Aptheker
Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz

Dan Bolognani
Executive Director, Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area

Thomas W. Cole, Jr.
President Emeritus, Clark Atlanta University
Interim Chancellor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Edmund W. Gordon
John M. Musser Professor of Psychology, Emeritus – Yale University
Richard March Hoe Professor of Psychology and Education, Emeritus – Teachers College, Columbia University
Cofounder, W.E.B. Du Bois Memorial Park

Frances Jones-Sneed
Professor of History, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Co-Director, Upper Housatonic Valley African American Heritage Trail

Odell Murry
President, MAI Financial Services, Inc.
Board Chair, W.E.B. Du Bois Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Trustee of the Du Bois Trust

Jay Schafer
Director, University of Massachusetts Libraries, Amherst