Melanie A. Adams is the Roger Ferguson and Annette Nazareth Director of the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum. She has more than 25 years of community engagement experience in museums and higher education, and she has broadened the museum’s community-centered programming to be responsive to community needs and launched the Smithsonian’s Center for Environmental Justice. She came to the Smithsonian in 2018 as director of the Anacostia Community Museum.| www.si.edu