Antoinette Wright: president & CEO DuSable Museum

Ebony, Feb, 2005

ANTOINETTE WRIGHT is the president and CEO of the DuSable Museum of African-American History in Chicago, the nation's first independent African-American history museum. She is responsible for museum programming, marketing strategy and the current $25 million expansion project. Wright, who was named director in 1997, formerly served as the museum's deputy director.

Before joining the DuSable Museum, she served as director of finance and administration, handling financial operations and fiscal management duties for the Donor's Forum of Chicago. Wright, a board member of the Association of African-American Museums and the Economic Club of Chicago, attended DePaul University and Mundelin College, earning a bachelor of arts in business administration. She later earned a certificate of museum management from the University of Colorado and studied at the Kellogg School of Nonprofit Management. She is single.