Christy S. Coleman

Christy S. Coleman is an American historian. She is the executive director of the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation and former president and chief executive officer of the American Civil War Museum. Born in central Florida Coleman grew up in Williamsburg, Virginia. She left a course at the College of William & Mary to pursue a career in acting. She worked briefly at a museum in Baltimore and as a stockbroker before earning degrees in museum studies from Hampton University. Coleman became a director at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation where, in 1994, she re-enacted a slave auction. In 1999 she became CEO of the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, she joined the American Civil War Museum and the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation in 2019.