President
Raymond Codrington is the Project Director at the Aspen Institute Roundtable on Community Change. He supervises projects that address structural racism in domestic and international contexts. Prior to joining the Aspen Institute, Codrington was the Founding Director of the Julian C. Dixon Institute for Cultural Studies and Assistant Curator in the Department of Anthropology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. He also held the positions of Sandy Boyd Postdoctoral Fellow at the Field Museum’s Center for Cultural Understanding and Change and Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Purchase.

President-Elect
Marla Frederick is Professor of African and African American Studies and the Study of Religion at Harvard University. She is the author of Between Sundays: Black Women and Everyday Struggles of Faith (U. of California, 2003), and co-author of Local Democracy Under Siege: Activism, Public Interests and Private Politics (NYU Press, 2007), which won the 2008 Book Award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America. Frederick's research interests include questions emerging from the intersections of religion, race, gender, media, politics and economics. She is currently completing an ethnography which looks at the rise of African American religious broadcasters and their influence in the US and Jamaica.

Secretary/Treasurer
Willie Lewis McKether is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toledo.He earned his Ph.D. from Wayne University in 2005). His research interests include domestic African-American migration; labor-management relations; organizational culture and, mixed-methods methodology.

General Editor
Dawn Elissa Fischer

Co-Editor - Transforming Anthropology
Aimee Cox is assistant professor in the Department of African American & African Studies at Rutgers University-Newark.

Co-Editor - Transforming Anthropology
Dana-Ain Davis is an Associate Professor in the Queens College Extension Center, where she is also the Associate Chair. She is the author of Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform (SUNY, 2006) and several articles that focus on the impact of welfare reform and neoliberalism. Davis's current research is in the United States and focuses on race, gender, poverty, reproductive health, community organizing, and the politics of activist anthropology.

Member-at-Large
Kimberly Eison Simmons is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and African American Studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. Her research interests include racialization processes, women's organizations and activism, identity formation and the cultural construction of race, color, and gender in the Dominican Republic, the United States, and throughout African Diaspora communities. She is the author of Reconstructing Racial Identities and the African Past in the Dominican Republic (University Press of Florida, 2009).

Members of Interest

Anthropology News Co-Editor
Karen Williams

Anthropology News Co-Editor
Bianca Robinson

Nominating Committee
Dana-Ain Davis is an Associate Professor in the Queens College Extension Center, where she is also the Associate Chair. She is the author of Battered Black Women and Welfare Reform (SUNY, 2006) and several articles that focus on the impact of welfare reform and neoliberalism. Davis's current research is in the United States and focuses on race, gender, poverty, reproductive health, community organizing, and the politics of activist anthropology.

Membership Committee Chair
Riche Daniel Barnes

Vera Green Award Committee
Aimee Cox

Archivist
Alisha Winn