Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty

Biography

Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty is an American librarian and cultural heritage administrator. An archives and special collections expert, Evangelestia-Dougherty was the executive director of the Chicago-based Black Metropolis Research Consortium from 2011 to 2013 and the director of collections and services at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture from 2013 to 2015. From 2021 to 2024, she was the first director of the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives, the world's largest museum library system.

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