Kenvi Phillips is an American librarian serving as the inaugural director of the Barack Obama Presidential Library since June 16, 2024.[1]

Kenvi Phillips
EducationHoward University, PhD
Alma materUniversity of Tulsa
OccupationDirector of the Barack Obama Presidential Library

Education and career

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Phillips 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

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In 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

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  1. ^ Dr. Kenvi Phillips Appointed Director of the Barack Obama Presidential Library National Archives. May 21, 2024.
  2. ^ Phillips, Kenvi C. 2010. "Monumental Change: The St. Louis Gateway Arch and the Integration of Craft Trades." Howard University.
  3. ^ Kenvi Phillips Curator for Race & Ethnicity, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University Harvard University.
  4. ^ Announcement | Kenvi C. Phillips Named Director of Library Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Brown University Libraries. August 11, 2021.
  5. ^ Libraries: Culture, History, & Society. American Library Association. Library History Round Table, published by Penn State University Press
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ "Chicago's African American Women in the Fight for the Vote." National Women's History Museum, August 26, 2020.