Camille Giraud Akeju isAmerican curator and educator. She is the former director of theAnacostia Community Museum inWashington, D.C.^[1]

Camille Akeju grew up inMount Vernon, New York.^[2] She attended college inJacksonville University, in 1968, and was one of six students to be integrated in the dorms. She ended up leaving Jacksonville and attendedHoward University, where she earned abachelor's degree inart education, a minor inprintmaking, and her master's degree inart history. While at Howard, she would intern at theSmithsonian Museum of American Art.

After graduation, Akeju worked briefly as professor atFisk University. She married a fellow professor, who was born inNigeria. The couple would live in Nigeria for two years and then move back to Mount Vernon. Upon their return, she started working at the Association of Community-Based Artists of Westchester Center for the Arts. Akeju then worked, for seven years, at the Mind-Builders Creative Arts Center in theBronx. She was the president and CEO of theHarlem School of the Arts for six years. She also worked at theNew York Transit Museum.^[2] In 2006, she became the director of theAnacostia Community Museum.^[3]

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