Dr. Ashley C. Adams
Historian and Educator
Dr. Ashley C. Adams is a historian, educator, and 4th-generation descendant of early settlers of Nicodemus, Kansas, a Black town and National Historic Site founded in 1877. Her ancestors also survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. She serves as Board President of the Nicodemus Historical Society, partners with the National Park Service, and works closely with the Allensworth community and California State Parks at Allensworth State Historic Park. As Founding Director of the Black Reparations Project, she advances reparative preservation through descendant engagement and developed the Nicodemus Rubric for Descendant Engagement, a framework grounding equity, access, and collective memory.
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Dr. Ashley C. Adams