Meet Our Board

Doris E. Hughes-Moore

President

Doris Hughes-Moore is a committed member of the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society and is
working alongside so many committed to the preservation of the legacy of Wilson Bruce Evans and Sarah. Jane Evans and advancing their commitment for uplift to all seeking social and economic parity with educational opportunities for all. She is also the great-great Grand-daughter of Wilson Bruce Evans and Sarah Jane Evans.

Annessa Wyman

Secretary

Annessa Wyman is an Oberlin resident and committed Trustee for the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society.

Catherine Grooms

Treasurer

Catherine Grooms is a Great-Great-Great Granddaughter of Wilson Bruce Evans and Sarah Jane Leary Evans. 

Catherine Grooms leads and manages the SBDC hosted by College of the Canyons in the Santa Clarita Valley, San Fernando Valley, Antelope Valley and Metro Los Angeles.  She works with thousands of small business owners and entrepreneurs, and has broad experience prior to joining the SBDC working with public and private companies both small and large on the East Coast, in the Midwest and in California including a variety of industries both domestic and international. Catherine has a BBA in Accounting from Howard University and an MBA (Accounting/Management Concentration) from the University of Baltimore. She is a graduate of the Leadership Development Program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business Executive Education; and the Leadership Development Program at University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee.

Gary Kornblith

Trustee

Gary Kornblith is Professor of History Emeritus at Oberlin College and has resided in Oberlin for forty years. With Carol Lasser, he is the joint author of Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, Ohio, published by Louisiana State University Press in 2018. Gary and Carol raised their three children in Oberlin. 

Gary is a long-standing member of the Oberlin African-American Genealogy and History Group and of the Oberlin Heritage Center, and he serves on the board of Oberlin Community Services.  He is proud to be a founding member of The Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society.

Liz Schultz

Trustee

Liz Schultz is the Executive Director of the Oberlin Heritage Center, a local historical society that collects and interprets Oberlin’s unique heritage and advocates for local history and preservation projects. Liz holds degrees in anthropology and museum studies and moved to Oberlin in 2007. She began as the education coordinator of OHC and regularly shared the history of the Evans family with visitors and residents and is excited to be part of this next stage of sharing Evans family stories.

Richard Hughes

Trustee

Richard Hughes (“Richy”) is a great, great, great grandson of Wilson Bruce and Sarah Jane Evans and a founding board member of the society.  Richy is a director of quality assurance for a global clinical pharmacology “biotech” with decades of experience in laboratory, environmental, and pharmaceutical industries. Richy lives with his wife, Michelle, and 2 (two) sons Levi Russell Hughes and Simon Lewis Hughes. Both of which are great, great, great, great grandsons of Wilson and Sarah. Moreover, Simon’s middle name, Lewis, honors the ultimate sacrifice paid by Lewis Sheridan Leary at the Harper’s Ferry, with Reverend John Brown.

Melany Hughes, MD, MPH, FACS

Trustee

Melany Hughes is a great, great, great grandchild of Sarah Jane Leary Evans and Wilson Bruce Evans. Melany is Vice Chair of Surgery/Service Chief at Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital.

Camille Hamlin Allen Ph.D.

Trustee

Camille Hamlin Allen, Ph.D., is a native of Oberlin, Ohio. Professionally, she spent 40 plus years working in the field of higher education, both as a licensed professional counselor and as a college administrator.

She is a founding member and past president of the Oberlin African American Genealogy and History Group; a member, docent, chair of the Westwood Cemetery GPS gravesite identification project and past trustee of the Oberlin Heritage Center; and a charter member of the Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society.

She is passionate about giving voice to the historical experiences of women of color, who were often only shadows within the historical records and whose voices were suppressed as background noise. Camille wants the world to know and acknowledge, “We too were here.”

Donna Russell

Trustee

Donna Russell is the Assistant Dean of Academic Advising Resource Center at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Donna has been been a part of the community for twenty-three years and has served with various community service organizations as well as participated in outreach and service at Oberlin College. Mrs. Russell has served with various community service organizations as well as participated in outreach and service at Oberlin
College. Mrs. Russell always admired Oberlin’s rich history and the community appreciation and celebration of Oberlin’s rich history, and serves as a Trustee for WBEHHS as another channel to contribute to Oberlin’s as shared national treasure. Donna shares her passion for education and community contribution with her husband, Kurt Russell. WBEHHS is honored to have her support.