Amina Dickerson

Amina Dickerson is president of Dickerson Global Advisors, a leadership coaching and consulting practice, employing over 35 years of leadership experience in the non-profit, museum, corporate, and philanthropy sectors. Her work is heavily focused on the intersection of arts, social justice, and community. She has supported a broad array of organizations, including an appointment as co-interim director of the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art. Previously, Dickerson served as president of the DuSable Museum of African American History and held leadership positions at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Chicago Historical Society, and the Woods Fund of Chicago. She served on the advisory committee for the Terra Foundation’s Art Design Chicago initiative and as an advisor and facilitator to The Salzburg Global Seminar program for Young Cultural Innovators. She is Chair of the Chicago’s Cultural Advisory Council and the Art Institute of Chicago’s Leadership Advisory Committee, Vice President of the Lloyd A. Fry Foundation, and is an advisor to the National Museum of African American History and Culture’s special initiative for HBCU museums. Dickerson began her career in the theater, studying at Emerson College in Boston and later earned an arts management MA from the American University in Washinton, DC. She held appointments as a Newberry Library Fellow and as Distinguished Visitor with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and is included in the African American HistoryMakers video archive at the Library of Congress.