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Ashley C. Adams

Associate Teaching Professor
Elinor Kilgore Snyder Endowed Professor
Special Appointment for Strategic Initiatives

Bio

Dr. Ashley Adams is an Associate Teaching Professor holding the Elinor Kilgore Snyder Professorship in the Mills College at Northeastern University Business and Social Sciences Unit. She also holds a special appointment within the Dean’s Office for Strategic Initiatives. Dr. Adams is a founding Co-Chair of the Oakland Campus Black Faculty and Staff Association and a founding Director of the Black Reparations Project (BRP) at Mills College at Northeastern University, an academic initiative focused on reparations research, education, and policy tracking. Beyond Northeastern, Dr. Adams serves as Board President of the Nicodemus Historical Society and is a descendant of early settlers of the historic Black town of Nicodemus, Kansas, a National Historic Site. She also serves on the Advisory Board for the Outsider Preservation Initiative, supporting descendant-led projects that preserve Black heritage through creative storytelling. Additionally, she provides research consultation for the African American History and Engagement Project at Allensworth State Historic Park, furthering efforts in partnership with the California African American Museum to better document and engage with Black historic sites. Dr. Adams is a Northeastern University Community to Community (C2C) Seed and Policy Grant Recipient and also engages genealogy research planning for Nicodemus and other descendant communities as part of her broader historical and preservation work.