Chair
Dr. Mary Graham President, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College
Perkinston, MS
Vice-Chair
Linda Fondren Founder, Catfish Row Museum
Vicksburg, MS
Secretary
Dr. Miranda Freeman English Professor and Dean of Humanities at Tougaloo College
Tougaloo, MS
Treasurer
George Bassi Director, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Laurel, MS
Sarah Crisler-Ruskey Director, Harrison County Library System
Gulfport, MS
Dr. Roy DeBerry Founder, Hill Country Project
Oxford, MS
*Kathy Henry
Madison, MS
*Betty Lou Jones
Meridian, MS
Dr. Tim Lampkin CEO, Higher Purpose Co.
Clarksdale, MS
Dr. Anne Marshall, Mississippi State University, Executive Director of the Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library and associate professor of history
Starkville, MS
Latoya Norman, Director, Museums for the Hattiesburg Convention Commission
Hattiesburg, MS
Nina Parikh Mississippi Film Office Director
Jackson, MS
*Brian Perry Mississippi Department of Agriculture & Commerce Chief of Staff
Jackson, MS
Dr. Michael Pickard Millsaps, Eudora Welty Chair of Southern Literature and associate professor of English and creative writing
Jackson, MS
Malika Polk-Lee Executive Director, B.B. King Museum
Indianola, MS
Dr. Temika Simmons Director, Mississippi Delta Community College – Greenville Campus
Greenville, MS
Dr. Deanne Stephens University of Southern Mississippi, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Gulf South and professor of history
Biloxi, MS
Dr. Douglass Sullivan-González, Professor of History – University of Mississippi
Oxford, MS
*Dr. Blake Thompson President, Mississippi College
Clinton, MS
Carla Wall Community Leader
Jackson, MS
*Shannon Warnock Community Leader
Ridgeland, MS
Jay Wesley Director, Chahta Immi for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
Choctaw, MS
*Governor’s Appointees