Adena Clothilda Eugenie Minott (born about 1879 – April 13, 1955[1]) was a Jamaican-born American educator and consultant.

She moved to the United States as a child, and was educated in New York City, where suffragist Mary E. Eato was one of her teachers.

[4] Minott earned a bachelor's and a master's degree from the McDonnall College of Phrenology and Psychology in Washington in 1899.

[7] In 1906, Minott was founder and principal of the Clio School of Mental Sciences in New York,[8] promising "a thorough and practical course of instruction ... in phrenology, physiognomy, psychology and kindred subjects".

[20] Beginning in 1937, she edited and published a magazine, The Community Messenger, with an advisory board of Harlem Renaissance lights including Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and Thelma Berlack Boozer.