Angela Thorpe Mason

Executive director, Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice

Angela Thorpe Mason is a cultural heritage leader, public historian and scholar based in Durham, North Carolina, where she serves as executive director of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice. For a decade, she has worked to share stories of the Black Southern experience and to amplify histories of marginalized communities in archives, museums and historic sites.

Mason attended the University of Florida, where she earned a bachelor of arts in history and a minor in African American studies. She earned her master of arts in history with a concentration in museum studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is an inaugural cohort member of the Advance Executive Training Program for museum leaders run by the Association of African American Museums and Howard University School of Business.