A trustee emerita since 2010, trustee since 1984, and a former AUB student (1954-55), Kerr-Adams is the coordinator for the Visiting Fulbright Scholar Program at University of California, Los Angeles and teaches in the International Institute. She is the author of various articles on the Middle East and two books: Come with me from Lebanon and Painting the Middle East. Kerr-Adams is the widow of the late AUB President Malcolm Kerr. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the RAND Center for Middle East Public Policy; founding member and past chair of the Leadership Council of the Churches for Middle East Peace, and a former trustee of the American University in Kuwait. She is a graduate of Occidental College (BA ’56) and American University in Cairo (MA ’81).