Betty Jo Harris

Director of Operations

Email: bettyjoharris@natchez.org

Phone: 601-442-2500

Betty Jo Harris is the Director of Operations for the Historic Natchez Foundation. A native of Tensas Parish, Louisiana, she received a Bachelor of Arts in History, a Master of Arts in History, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Louisiana at Monroe. She has conducted hundreds of oral history interviews as part of the Louisiana Folklife Program pertaining to the 1927 Mississippi River Flood and the Great Depression in Northeast Louisiana.

Betty Jo is a former history instructor at Copiah-Lincoln Community College and was coordinator of the Natchez Literary and Cinema Celebration. She is the former president of the Junior League of Monroe and served as a board member for the Louisiana Purchase Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Monroe Garden Study League (GCA). She currently serves as a board member for the Mississippi Book Festival and the Natchez-Adams County Chamber of Commerce.