Chair Persons
Rachel Fletcher, Trustee,
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area
Frances Jones-Sneed, Professor, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Advisory Council
Barbara Allen, Curator
Stockbridge Library Association Historical Collection
Richard Anderson, Public History, UMASS of Amherst
Barbara Bartle, Professor, Berkshire Community College
Ann-Elizabeth Barnes, Historic Site Interpreter
Whitney Battle-Baptiste, Professor of Anthropology
W.E.B. Du Bois Center of UMASS of Amherst
Ellen Broderick, Former teacher and
W.E.B. Du Bois Curriculum Director, Berkshire Country Day School
Brian Burke, President, Great Barrington Historical Society
Richard Courage, Professor of English
Westchester Community College-SUNY
Susan Denault, Reference Librarian and Archivist
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Barbara Dowling, Director, Sheffield Historical Society
Esther Dozier, Pastor, Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church, Great Barrington
Bernard A Drew, Local historian, Great Barrington
Friends of the Du Bois Homesite
David Graham Du Bois,
Founding President and CEO, W.E.B. Du Bois Foundation, Inc.
UMass professor of Journalism/Afro-American Studies
Willard H. Durant, Former Pastor
Price Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church, Pittsfield
Shirley Edgerton, Director
Youth Alive and Women of Color Giving Circle of Berkshire
Will Garrison, Historic Resources Manager,
Western Region, The Trustees of Reservations
Elaine S. Gunn, 1968 Du Bois Memorial Committee
Chair, Friends of the Du Bois Homesite
Wray M. Gunn, Trustee, Clinton A.M.E. Zion Church, Great Barrington
John A. James, Architect, Sheffield
Evelyn Jeffers, UMASS of Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Foundation
David Levinson, Cultural Anthropologist, Author
Homer Meade, National Evaluation Systems;
Berkshire Country Day School
James Miller, Former President, Sheffield Historical Society
MaryNell Morgan, Professor, SUNY – Empire State College
Former Sterling A. Brown ’22 Visiting Professor, Williams College
Ivan Newton, Historian, Second Congregational Church, Pittsfield
Anne O’Dwyer, Assoc. Dean of Academic Affairs
Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Robert Paynter, Professor of Anthropology
W.E.B. Du Bois Center of UMASS of Amherst
Emilie Piper, Local Historian, Berkshire Athenaeum
Cora Portnoff, Sheffield Historical Society
Eden-Reneé Pruitt, Asst. Professor of Psychology
Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Marla Robertson, Mentoring Programs Director
Railroad Street Youth Project
Thomas Shachtman, Trustee
Upper Housatonic Valley National Heritage Area
Betsy Sherman, President, Board of Trustees
Berkshire Historical Society
Linda M. Tyer, Samuel Harrison Society
Gwendolyn Hampton VanSant, Director, BRIDGE, Inc.
Claudette Webster, Fellow,
African American Biography Curriculum Project
Randy Weinstein, Director
W.E.B. Du Bois Center at Great Barrington
Megan P. Whilden, Director, Office of Cultural Development, Pittsfield
Alex Willingham, Professor of Political Science, Williams College
Photo Credit: Erik Callahan
Photo Credit: Erik Callahan
