Johnnetta Cole is an anthropologist and educator. In 1987 she became the first African American woman president of Spelman College. Prior to that appointment Cole taught at the University of California, Los Angeles (1964), directed the Black studies program at Washington State University at Pullman (1969–70), and taught at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (1970–83). After retiring from her role at Spelman in 1997 Cole taught as Presidential Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and African American Studies at Emory University until 2001. From 2002 to 2007 she was president of Bennett College for Women. In 2009–17 Cole was director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art.
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