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Marion "Missy" McGee, Ph.D. is a 2022 graduate of the PHD Program in Leadership and Change at Antioch University.

Marion "Missy" McGee at her Dissertation Defense.

From L-R: Dr. Lemuel Watson, Committee Member, Dr. Donna Ladkin, Committee Chair, Dr. Damion L. Thomas, Committee Member.

Dissertation Committee

  • Donna Ladkin, Ph.D., Committee Chair
  • Lemuel Watson, Ph.D., Committee Member
  • Damion L. Thomas, Ph.D., Committee Member

Keywords

African American, ancestry, art, Black, collective, culture, discourse analysis, history, identity, generational, generativity, leadership, legacy, museum, narrative, oral history, race, racial identity, social movement theory

Document Type

Dissertation

Publication Date

2022

Abstract

Reframing Leadership Narratives through the African American Lens explores the context-rich experiences of Black Museum executives to challenge dominant cultural perspectives of what constitutes a leader. Using critical narrative discourse analysis, this research foregrounds under-told narratives and reveals the leadership practices used to proliferate Black Museums to contrast the lack of racially diverse perspectives in the pedagogy of leadership studies. This was accomplished by investigating the origin stories of African American executives using organizational leadership and social movement theories as analytical lenses for making sense of leaders’ tactics and strategies. Commentary from Black Museum leaders were interspersed with sentiments of “Sankofa” which signify the importance of preserving the wisdom of the past in an effort to empower current and future generations. This study contributes to closing the gap between race and leadership through a multidimensional lens, while amplifying lesser-known histories, increasing unexplored narrative exemplars, and providing greater empirical evidence from the point of view of African American leaders. This dissertation is available in open access at AURA (https://aura.antioch.edu) and OhioLINK ETD Center (https://etd.ohiolink.edu).

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Marion Missy McGee

ORCID Scholar ID #: #0000-0003-2778-6261

Marion Missy McGee is a research practitioner who specializes in expanding and reframing conventional narratives to create more equitable leadership ecosystems. As an organizational strategist, she administers the design, implementation and evaluation of domestic and international programmatic initiatives for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), located in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include long-term strategic planning and organizational forecasting through relational and participatory leadership. She believes in creative problem solving through the embrace of failure, experimentation, and innovation. Marion’s scholarly research contributes to closing the gap between race and leadership through a multidimensional lens, while amplifying lesser-known histories, increasing unexplored narrative exemplars, and providing greater empirical evidence from the vantage point of African American leaders. For over 10 years, Marion has led multi-state collaborative partnerships, strategic planning for board and staff development, along with coordination of regional, national and international conferences and facilitation of skill-development trainings. She is former executive director of the John G. Riley Museum of African American History and Culture and interim director of Florida’s statewide African American Heritage Preservation Network (FAAHPN). Marion is a gifted strategist who takes a passionate approach to transforming organizations through resource identification, partnership development, and workshop facilitation. She received a Bachelor of Science in Business Management and a Master of Business Administration from the Florida A&M University. She also holds a Master of Arts in Leadership and Change and a PhD in Leadership & Organizational Change from Antioch University.

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