Andrea Douglas

Dr. Andrea Douglas is the founding executive director of the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. She holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in art history from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. in arts management and finance from Binghamton University, and completed the Getty Leadership Institute program.

From 2004 to 2010, she served as curator of collections, exhibitions, and contemporary art at the University of Virginia Art Museum. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in African American and contemporary art and published scholarly works. At the Heritage Center, she has curated exhibitions of local and regional African American artists.

Douglas’s leadership extends widely: she has served on commissions addressing slavery, segregation, and lynching in Virginia; advisory committees at UVA and Monticello; and numerous local boards including the Emily Couric Leadership Forum and the Miller School. She also chaired Charlottesville’s PLACE Design Task Force and the Blue-Ribbon Commission on Race and Monuments.