The Museum's Board of Advisors provides advice and counsel to the director and the Museum staff, serves as a liaison to the community, and demonstrates community support and involvement for the Museum's mission and goals.

Andrea Scott, Chair
Community Leader

Jill Andrews
Director, Development and External Relations
School of Information, University of Michigan

L. Thomas Conlin
Founder, Conlin Travel, Inc.

Margaret Evans
Lecturer, U-M Department of Psychology
Research Investigator, U-M Center for Human Growth and Development

Janet Kahan
Science and Math Coordinator, Plymouth-Canton Public Schools

Mary Kerr
President, Ann Arbor Area Convention & Visitors Bureau

Brandon Peecook
Exhibit Museum Student Docent Representative

Susan Pollay
Director, Downtown Development Authority, City of Ann Arbor

Tamara Real
Director, Ann Arbor Area Arts Alliance

David West Reynolds
Author and Consultant, Louisville, KY

Sarah Schleicher
Exhibit Museum Student Docent Representative

Ray Silverman
Director, U-M Museum Studies Program and
Professor, History of Art and Center for African and African-American Studies