AUBURN, N.Y. — The Fred L. Emerson Foundation announced it has elected Ann Mackey Huston and Darlene Motley to its board of directors.

Huston is a native of Cayuga County with 40 years of diverse experience as a public-school teacher, consultant, and executive leader in nonprofit health care. She has served as a partner at Ernst & Young, as chief strategy officer at Cleveland Clinic, and as an independent consultant to nationally leading health-care organizations. Huston is a graduate of SUNY Cortland and Johns Hopkins University, and resides in Skaneateles.

Motley, Ph.D., is currently CEO and co-founder of the African American Directors Forum, which has a mission to increase African American representation in the board rooms and C-suites of public and venture-backed companies, expand the executive talent pipeline, and share knowledge and build community and expertise for first-time, newly appointed directors. Motley is the former and founding dean of the School of Arts, Science and Business at Chatham University. With 20 years of experience in higher-education leadership at both Chatham and Robert Morris University, she has led initiatives around inclusiveness and helped lead Chatham’s historic move to undergraduate co-education. Motley holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Chicago, and resides in Pittsburgh.

“We are extremely pleased to have Darlene Motley and Ann Mackey Huston — two highly accomplished individuals — join the Emerson Foundation board. As a fifth-generation family foundation, we look for exceptional individuals to serve as independent directors and bring complementary skills and backgrounds to our board,” Kristen E. Rubacka, president of the foundation, said in a news release.

Established in 1932, the Emerson Foundation is a private family foundation, located in Auburn, that provides support to not-for-profit organizations in Auburn and the surrounding Central New York area where its founder, Fred L. Emerson, lived and worked.