Mary Anne Adams

Founder & Executive Director, ZAMI NOBLA

Mary Anne Adams has a Master’s Degree in Social Work with a concentration in Community Partnerships and over 25 years of work experience in public health, social work education, community engagement, capacity building, group facilitation, outreach and recruitment, planning, community organizing, and mobilization. Adams is a Commissioner with the East Point Housing Authority and serves as Chair of the Commission. She is a member of the Executive Advisory Board for BEAM (Black Emotional and Mental Health Collective) and serves on the Community Advisory Board at Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, and is an Advisory Board Member at Emory University School of Nursing, with the CaRE training program for caregivers of persons living with Alzheimer’s disease and other dementia disorders. Adams is also an Advisory Board Member for the National LGBTQ+ Women’s Community Survey, Atlanta Mayor’s LGBTQ Advisory Board, and the Rise Registry at Emory University, an Alzheimer’s disease prevention lab, serving the LGBTQIA + community.