Friends of Juanita Craft
Civil Rights House & Museum
2023 Board of Directors
Our mission is to inspire bold civic engagement globally by preserving and amplifying Juanita Craft’s life and legacy of human rights through transformational education. We collaborated with the City of Dallas Office of Arts and Culture and the Junior League of Dallas to restore Ms. Craft’s home with the goal of achieving museum accreditation and registration on the Civil Rights Trail for the state of Texas.
Candace Thompson
Chair
Carnell Brame
Secretary
Verenia Hatch
Treasurer
Marsha Jackson
Membership Committee Chair
Shelly Skeen
Historic Designation Committee Chair
Charlondra Thompson
Marketing & Communications
Cecilia Gutierrez Venable
Historic Interpretation & Oral Histories Committee Chair
Akilah Wallace
Fundraising Committee Chair
Derek Avery Sr.
Susanna Foote
Linda Lydia
Patricia Perez
Tamara Redic-Cottrell
Chandler Vaughn
Juanita J. Craft Civil Rights House & Museum Steering Committee
Cannon Flowers (Chair)
Irungu Bakari
Lucy Cain
Willie Mae Coleman
Philip Collins
Steven Downer
Dr. Froswa’ Booker-Drew, Ph.D.
Adam Bazaldua
Rev. Clarence Glover
Joanna Hampton, AIA
Jesse Hornbuckle
RafiQ Salleh-Flowers
Donald Payton
Gina Norris
Katherine Seale
John Spriggins
Candace Thompson
Chandler Vaughan
Sonya Woods
Friends of Juanita Craft House & Museum
Advisory Council
Willie Mae Coleman
Harryette Ehrhardt
Gina Norris
Diane Ragsdale
Katherine Seale
City of Dallas Advisory
Nikki Christmas
Kendall Ferguson
Misty Maberry
John Spriggins
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“It is our hope that each person that crosses the threshold of Ms. Craft’s home is transformed into a better version of themselves, committed to actively participating in civic life.”
– Candace Thompson, Chair of the Friends of the Juanita Craft Civil Rights House
