Women's Leadership Council Fall Luncheon featuring Dr. Johnnetta Cole

The Women's Leadership Council Fall Luncheon will feature Dr. Johnnetta Cole, Director of the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution and former Chair of United Way of America as the keynote speaker.

 

Dr. Cole served as president of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women. She is the only person to have served as president of these two historically Black colleges for women in the United States. She is also Professor Emerita of Emory University from which she retired as Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies and African American Studies. Dr. Cole was the Chair of the Board of United Way of America, the first African American to serve in that position. She has served on the corporate boards of Home Depot, Merck and Nation’s Bank South. She was the first woman to serve on the board of Coca-Cola Enterprises. Dr. Cole currently chairs the board of the National Visionary Leadership Project and she is on the board of KaBOOM! She is on the Advisory Committee of America’s Promise and Points of Light Foundation. Dr.Cole is a memberof Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., The Links, Inc., and the National Council of Negro Women.