From the Field

Johnnetta Cole Receives Diversity Leadership Award

March 5, 2013

On March 5, 2013, the American Council on Education honored National Museum of African Art Director and AAMD Trustee Johnnetta Betsch Cole with the Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award. The award was presented at ACE's 95th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.

"In her 40 years in American higher education and current role at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, Johnnetta Cole's powerful work to promote racial and gender equity has been an example for us all," said ACE President Molly Corbett Broad. "It is an honor to present a person who represents such historic firsts and incredible results with the 2013 Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award."

 

More information on Dr. Cole and the Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award are available here.

 

Image credit: Tim Trumble for the American Council on Education