Background
Cafritz, Peggy Cooper was born on April 7, 1947 in Mobile, Alabama, United States. Daughter of Algernon Johnson and G. Catherine (Mouton) Cafritz.
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Peggy Cooper Cafritz
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Bachelor of Arts Political Science, George Washington University, 1968; Juris Doctor, George Washington University, 1971.
Career
Founder, Workshops for Careers in Arts, Washington, 1968; developer, Chairman of the Board, Duke Ellington School Arts., Washington, 1968-1984; director, Arrowstreet, Architects and Planners Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972-1974; director, Arrowstreet, Architects and Planners Inc., Washington, 1972-1974; special assistant to president, Post-Newsweek Stations Inc., Washington, 1974-1977; programming executive, producer documentary films, Station WTOP-television, Washington, 1974-1977. Consultant arts critic public television show Around Town, since 1986.
Achievements
Membership
Member of Executive Committee District of Columbia Commission Arts and Humanities, 1970-1975, chairman, 1979-1987, chairman emeritus, since 1987. Trustee American Film Institute, 1972-1974, Pratt Institute, 1991. Board of Governors Corcoran Gallery Art, Washington, 1972-1974.
Exec.dir. great issure program District of Columbia Bicentennial Commission, 1974. Board directors Washington Performing Arts Society, since 1983, Kennedy Center Performing Arts, since 1986, Women's Project, since 1987, National Guild Community Schools of Arts, 1976-1980, Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation, Washington, 1979-1987, Atlanta U., 1983-1986, Washington, American Place Theater, New York City. Co-chairman Mayor's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Cultural and Economics Development, 1987-1988.
Member Executive Board National Assembly State Arts Agilysys, 1979-1986, planning committee, 1986-1987. Member convention staff Democratic National Committee, 1972, 76. Member steering committee Carter-Mondale, Washington, 1976.
Member of national panel Arts, Edition and Americans, 1975-1979. Member international committee United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, 1976-1979. Chair Smithsonian CulturalEdn.
Committee, since 1989. Co-chair Smithsonian Cultural Equity Committee, since 1988. Member African-American Institutional study advising committee Smithsonian Institution, since 1990.
Member American Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association.
Connections
Married; 2 children.
