Kenvi Phillips is an American librarian serving as the inaugural director of the Barack Obama Presidential Library since June 16, 2024.[1]
Kenvi Phillips | |
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| Education | Howard University, PhD |
| Alma mater | University of Tulsa |
| Occupation | Director of the Barack Obama Presidential Library |
Education and career
editPhillips earned a B.A. in history at the University of Tulsa, the M.A. in Public History and the PhD in American History from Howard University.[2]
She was Historian at the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission from 2009 to 2013. She worked as Assistant Librarian at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University from 2013 to 2016.
She was the Johanna-Marie Frankel Curator for Race and Ethnicity at the Schlesinger Library of Harvard University from 2016 to 2021.[3]
Phillips was Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Brown University Libraries from 2021 to 2024.[4]
She is Associate Editor of the Library History Round Table journal, Libraries: Culture, History, & Society. [5]
Presentations
editIn 2015 she presented at the Digital Initiatives Symposium on "Digitizing the Black Experience: The Building of 'Digital Howard' and the 'Portal to the Black Experience.'"[6]
As part of the National Women's History Museum Centenary Celebration Series, "Determined to Rise": Women's Historical Activism for Equal Rights" in August 2020 Phillips presented on "Chicago's African American Women in the Fight for the Vote."[7]
References
edit- ^ Dr. Kenvi Phillips Appointed Director of the Barack Obama Presidential Library National Archives. May 21, 2024.
- ^ Phillips, Kenvi C. 2010. "Monumental Change: The St. Louis Gateway Arch and the Integration of Craft Trades." Howard University.
- ^ Kenvi Phillips Curator for Race & Ethnicity, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Harvard University.
- ^ Announcement | Kenvi C. Phillips Named Director of Library Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Brown University Libraries. August 11, 2021.
- ^ Libraries: Culture, History, & Society. American Library Association. Library History Round Table, published by Penn State University Press
- ^ Lopez D. Matthews Jr., Kenvi C. Phillips, Andrew Sulavik."Digitizing the Black Experience: The Building of 'Digital Howard' and the 'Portal to the Black Experience'" Publication: Digital Initiatives Symposium. 2015.
- ^ "Chicago's African American Women in the Fight for the Vote." National Women's History Museum, August 26, 2020.