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Dr. Mack was most recently Manager of Exhibits and Education Programs at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, a new museum and learning center scheduled to open in Cincinnati, Ohio in 2003. As programming director, Dr. Mack led the effort to conceive, plan, and implement all of the Freedom Center's interpretive and educational programs, including exhibitions, curricular and public programs, publications, and related special events. She also directed the Freedom Center's historic preservation collaborations and museum collections.

Dr. Mack brings with her nearly fifteen years of experience in developing public programs, exhibits, curricula, and publications for several well-known cultural institutions in the U.S. and abroad. She was the project director for Chicago's Field Museum's AFRICA exhibition, a major exhibition on the biology, cultures, and environments of Africa. She curated a second edition of the original exhibition that is traveling nationally from 1996 through 2001 under the title AFRICA: One Continent, Many Worlds. Dr. Mack has also taught anthropology and African Studies at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, Ill., and at Northwestern University. Her doctoral research is in the eastern Sahara, in Sudan, was among pastoralists/camel nomads.

She consults extensively on museum, academic, and cultural tourism issues with organizations nationwide and internationally, including the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York; the National Museum of American History and National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington; the Chicago Historical Society; the Illinois State Board of Education; the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, NM; and internationally, UNESCO in Paris; Musée Historique de Gorée in Senegal; the Palace Museum in Cameroon; and Organización Mundo Afro in Uruguay. Dr. Mack has conducted museum collections, film production, and anthropological research, primarily in Africa, for more than 20 years.

Dr. Mack holds a Ph.D. and M.A., both in anthropology from Northwestern University, and a bachelor's degree in geography from the University of Chicago.

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