Leadership

Executive Committee

George R. Hamilton

Chair

NEIL A. BARCLAY

President (ex-officio)

Lynn Weaver

Vice Chair

JONI THROWER DAVIS

Secretary

Kala J. Gibson

Treasurer

Kelly Green

Parliamentarian

James P. Cunningham

Executive Committee Member

Executive Staff

NEIL A. BARCLAY

President & Chief Executive Officer

Jeffrey J. Anderson

Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer

James Claiborne

Senior Vice President, Exhibitions & Programs

Michon Lartigue

Senior Vice President, Institutional Advancement

Joy DeFrance

Vice President, Organizational Development

Yolanda Holder

Chief of Staff 

Museum Staff 

Administration

Jeffrey Anderson

Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer 

Leslie Tom

Chief Sustainability Officer

ChaR YATES

Director of Media Relations

Jasmine Jenkins

Executive Assistant

Collections & Exhibitions

Patrina Chatman

Historian

Jennifer Evans 

Exhibitions Manager 

Michelle Mckinney 

Archivist

Lina C. stephens

Collections Manager 

ashley reynolds

Digital Archivist

Dr. Kelli Morgan

Senior Curator

Design & Fabrication

Kevin Davidson 

Director of Design & Fabrication

Korzell Coe

Assistant Exhibit Designer

Development

Robin Marshall

Membership Coordinator

Cedric Scott

Director of Corporate Sponsor and Membership

External Affairs

Sheneese Johnson

Group Sales Manager 

Kelly Miner

Marketing & Communications Manager

Facility Rentals 

Ricarda Brooks 

Special Events Sales Manager

Jessica Brown

Special Events Coordinator

Finance

Joy DeFrance

Vice President, Organizational Development

Sherrell Martin

Organizational Development Specialist

Guest Services & Retail Operations

Taylor McClendon

Director of Customer Experience

Darius Scott

Guest Service Associate/E-Commerce

Demetrius Roberts

Guest Service Associate

Nate Stokes

Guest Service Associate

Chelsea Reynolds

Guest Service Associate

Andre Mitchell

Guest Service Associate

Laila Newton

Guest Service Associate

Human Resources

Raina Polk 

Human Resource Manager

Learning & Engagement

Marline Martin

Director of Learning and Engagement

Jatu Gray

Museum Educator

Yolanda Jack

Manager of Community Engagement

Jonathan Jones 

Manager of Youth & Family Programs

Doug McCray

Museum Educator

Jamia Henry

Program Coordinator

Kyle Sammy

Education Specialist

Xavier Jack

Museum Educator

Tatjana Jackson

Museum Educator

Halimah Nurullah

Museum Educator

Operations

Warren emersoN

Director of Building Operations

Jay moorer

Building Engineer

Security

Lloyd Tolliver

Security Supervisor

Elsa Hernandez

Security Officer 

Quartina McKinney

Security Officer 

Everett Robinson

Security Officer

Shavon Newson

Security Officer

Sustainability

Leslie Tom

Chief Sustainability Officer

Board of Trustees

Marseille Allen

The Fairfield Group

Rumia Ambrose-Burbank

VMS365

Carolynn Andrews

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (Retired)

Jasmin Barnett

Ladies In Training

Rian English Barnhill

Olympia Development

Scott Benson

Detroit City Council

Margaret L. Betts, M.D.

Betts Medical Group

Yvette Bing

H.T. and Associates, Inc.

Elizabeth W. Brooks, CHAIR EMERITUS

Philanthropist & Community Activist

Larry Bryant

Comerica Bank

Tamira T. Chapman

SIAB Global

James P. Cunningham

Williams Williams Rattner & Plunket, P.C.

TYRONE DavENPORT

BankOne/CHWMAAH (Retired)

Joni M. Thrower Davis

Jamjomar Inc.

eric Davis

Ford Motor Company Fund

Matthew Davis

Chase Bank

Jasmin DeForrest

Gilbert Family Foundation

Walter E. Douglas, Member Emeritus

Avis Ford

Jennifer Fiore

Fiore Ventures

Kala Gibson

Fifth Third Bank

Joyce V. Hayes Giles

DTE (Retired)

Roderick D. Gillum, Member Emeritus

Jackson Lewis, P.C.

evette griffie

DTE Energy

Kelly Green

Graystone Consulting - Morgan Stanley

George R. Hamilton

Hamilton Consulting International

Lauren Hood

Institute for AfroUrbanism

Marion Jackson

Wayne State University

John James, Member Emeritus

James Group International

Maurice G. Morton

Detroit Academy of Arts & Sciences/Morton Law Group, PLLC

Anika OdEgbo

Jackson Asset Management

Vivian R. Pickard

The Pickard Group

Rochelle Riley

City of Detroit

Brian Smith, Ph.D.

Tuskegee Airmen National Museum

Dr. Richard Smith

Henry Ford Health System (Retired)

Lynn Weaver

Yazaki North America (Retired)

stefen j. welch 

Detroit Pistons