RESPONSIBILITY&EMPOWERMENT CAJM Annual Museums Jewish for Civic Role A #CAJM18 2018 Feb DC Washington Conference CAJM 25-28 CONFERENCE CAJM BOARD MAIN CONFERENCE LOCATIONS PROGRAM COMMITTEE OF DIRECTORS Conference Co-Chairs Deborah Cardin, Chair KIMPTON HOTEL PALOMAR DC Juliana Ochs Dweck Susan Bronson, Vice-Chair 2121 P Street, NW Zachary P. Levine Colin Weil, Treasurer 202.448.1800 | hotelpalomar-dc.com Marsha Semmel Zachary P. Levine, Secretary USHMM Program SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE Avi Decter, Immediate Co-Chairs Past Chair 600 I Street, NW Christine Brown 202.408.3100 | sixthandi.org Diane Saltzman Grace Astrove Bryan Davis Wilson Center Liaison Rachel Herschman UNITED STATES Izabella Tabarovsky Gravity Goldberg HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM Reboot Liaison Mira Goldfarb 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Josh Kantor Rachel Jarman Myers 202.488.0400 | ushmm.org Judith Rosenbaum GWU Jewish Cultural Arts Ellen Rudolph Liaison THE WILSON CENTER Diane Saltzman Jenna Weissman Joselit 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Marsha Semmel Committee Members Ivy Weingram 202.691.4000 | wilsoncenter.org Samantha Abramson Arielle Weininger Jefferey Allen NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM CAJM Staff Grace Astrove Melissa Martens 401 F Street, NW Deborah Cardin Yaverbaum, 202.272.2448 | nbm.org Bryan Davis Executive Director Avi Decter Amy E. Waterman, Gravity Goldberg Senior Communications Gabriel Goldstein Manager Elizabeth Livesey Mindy Humphrey, Lisa Sasaki Administrative Assistant Laura Schiavo Elizabeth Livesey, Wendy Turman Conference Intern Ivy Weingram Tami Wolf Welcome Museums have long been part of civic life, the to the public square, and society at large. Today, our 2018 museums face key questions about their roles and CAJM responsibilities. How and when should we discuss Conference current events? How can we draw on Jewish history to inform the present? What does bravery look like in a museum, and when is risk unnecessary? What are our ultimate responsibilities—as public centers, Jewish institutions, and keepers of history?

The 2018 CAJM conference takes us to Washington, DC—the nation’s capital and home to museums that explore national narratives from di erent vantage points. Under the theme “Responsibility and Empowerment,” we’ll engage colleagues in conversations about our institutions’ responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities—as well as ways we empower audiences through our work.

CAJM Thank you The David Berg Foundation to our conference Gallagher & Associates supporters Albert & Lillian Small Foundation and partners Rabbi Robert and Virginia Bayer Hirt National Building Museum The Wilson Center American Alliance of Museums Reboot Sixth & I Historic Synagogue Rina Scott Cowan

ADDITIONAL THANKS TO THESE DONORS FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF CAJM ACTIVITIES THROUGHOUT THE YEAR The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation The Gottesman Fund The National Mah Jongg League Foundation SUNDAY FEBRUARY 25 10:00 am MORNING ACTIVITIES (by Advanced Registration) Walking tour of Downtown DC Led by Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington Visit to Private Judaica Collection of Max N. Berry 1 mile from Van Ness Metro station Visit to National Museum of American Jewish Military History

With welcome from staff PROGRAM Visit to Dupont Underground arts space Located in a subterranean streetcar station

LOCATION SIXTH & I HISTORIC SYNAGOGUE 11:45 am REGISTRATION AND LUNCH

12:30 pm CAJM MENTOR/MENTEE ORIENTATION (over lunch) Chair: GRACE ASTROVE (Senior Development Offi cer for Exhibitions, the Jewish Museum)

1:00 pm WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION A TIME OF RESPONSIBILITY This introduction will frame the conference theme with emphasis on our responsibilities as Jewish institutions, civic institutions, and museums. Conference Co-Chairs will each put forth their point of view on the work of our institutions and our collective professional community. This will set the stage for our conference deliberations. Session Chair: MELISSA MARTENS YAVERBAUM (Executive Director, CAJM), with JULIANA OCHS DWECK (Curator of Academic Engagement, Princeton University Art Museum); ZACHARY P. LEVINE (Director of Exhibitions & Collections, National Building Museum); and MARSHA SEMMEL (Principal, Marsha Semmel Consulting)

CAJM 1:30 pm PLENARY ON BRAVERY AND CAUTION: RISK TAKING IN MUSEUM WORK Museum professionals address how they’ve challenged audiences and their own institutions through bold exhibitions, programs, and collecting initiatives. What institutional risks are concomitant with difficult or contested narratives? What are the perils and opportunities inherent in addressing contemporary issues? What does risk-taking look like for museums, and when is it productive or counter productive? This panel will articulate balances between professional caution and action. Session Chair: LAURA SCHIAVO (Assistant Professor, Museum Studies, George Washington University), with SEAN KELLEY (Senior Vice President, Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site); LISA YUN LEE (Executive Director, National Public Housing Museum); PATTY RHULE (Director of Exhibit Development, Newseum); SHARON SHAHID (Independent Consultant)

2:45 pm BRIEFING ON MUSEUMS ADVOCACY DAY 2018 JUDY MARGLES (Board Member, AAM, and Executive Director, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education)

3:00 pm TALKING CIRCLE DISCUSSION GROUPS Based on topics put forth by CAJM members Session Chair: DEBORAH CARDIN (Director of Development, Baltimore Museum of Industry)

4:00pm COFFEE BREAK

4:30-5:45 pm PLENARY DIFFICULT HISTORIES Historical narratives are at the heart of museum work, though many aspects of history can be difficult to contend with. How do museums deal with stories that are contested or painful? How do museums handle historical narratives that are at odds with contemporary impulses? How are museums confronting difficult pasts, and how might they realistically present these? Session Chairs: BRYAN DAVIS (Director, Jewish History Museum, Tucson), with CHRISTY COLEMAN (Chief Executive Officer, American Civil War Museum); MAGDALENA GROSS (Assistant Professor, University of Maryland); SARAH LEAVITT (Curator, National Building Museum); and JUDY MARGLES (Executive Director, Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education)

6:00-7:30 pm AN EVENING WITH MUSEUM ADVOCATES In conjunction with Museums Advocacy Day 2018 Featured Speaker: SENATOR BEN CARDIN, with introduction by LAURA LOTT (President and CEO, AAM), and MELISSA MARTENS YAVERBAUM (Executive Director, CAJM) MONDAY FEBRUARY 26

LOCATION THE WILSON CENTER 9:20 am Featured Speaker: KINSHASHA HOLMAN CONWILL (Deputy Director, National Museum of African American History & Culture)

10:45 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 1-A FEDERAL FUNDING AND OUR MUSEUMS In working to sustain our institutions and to support core museum activities, many CAJM member institutions have pursued funding from federal cultural agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. In this session, representatives from these agencies will provide updates regarding trends in federal support, current funding priorities, and suggestions for success. Session Chair: MARSHA SEMMEL (Principal, Marsha Semmel Consulting), with WENDY CLARK (Director of Museums, Visual Arts, and Indemnity, National Endowment for the Arts); HELEN WECHSLER (Supervisory Grants Specialist, Institute of Museum and Library Services); and DAVID WEINSTEIN (Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities)

Session 1-B RESTORING MEMORY OF THE JEWISH PAST IN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE Today, material traces of Jewish life are disappearing rapidly in the post-Soviet space; vanishing along with them is the memory of Jewish presence in the region. This session will ask: what remains of that Jewish past and how is it being represented? How is the history of the Holocaust represented there—where such history was suppressed for decades? What role can American-Jewish museums play, if any, in assisting such efforts? Session Chair: IZABELLA TABAROVSKY (Senior Program Associate, Wilson Center), with SOFIA DYAK (Director, Center for Urban History, Lviv); LUDMILA GORDON (Museum Exhibition Developer); and BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT (Chief Curator, POLIN)

12:15 pm LUNCH AND CAJM TOWN HALL MEETING HONORING MACY HART AND AVI DECTER

1:30 pm TALKING CIRCLE DISCUSSION GROUPS Based on topics put forth by CAJM members Session Chair: DEBORAH CARDIN (Director of Development, Baltimore Museum of Industry)

2:45 pm BREAK

CAJM 3:15 pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 2-A JEWISH HISTORY, RESPONSIBILITY, AND INTERNATIONAL CULTURAL PROPERTY AT RISK From the depiction of the Menorah carried as booty on the Arch of Titus to the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction’s efforts to find new homes for orphaned artifacts after the Holocaust, Jewish history has been marked by experiences of dispersion and the occasional return of cultural treasures. This session will consider recent global events in which experiences of war and disaster have threatened cultural patrimony, and will ask what our role should be. Presenters will discuss the complexities of current events, and encourage us to take responsibility for disaster preparedness both for the objects we safeguard in our nearby communities and for cultural treasures worldwide. Session Chair: GABRIEL GOLDSTEIN (Independent Consultant), with BRIAN DANIELS (Director of Research and Programs, University of Pennsylvania Museum); KNOX THAMES (Special Advisor, Department of State); and CORINE WEGENER (Cultural Heritage Preservation Officer, Smithsonian Institution) Session 2-B INTERPRETING ISRAEL: CONSIDERATIONS, APPROACHES, AND TECHNIQUES This exploratory and open conversation will look at questions we face in addressing the history and culture of Israel. How can American-Jewish museums engage with Israel’s history and cultivate meaningful discussion? What perspectives and sensitivities should we take into consideration, and what are the realities we face? This participatory session, guided by scholars in related disciplines, provides an opportunity to contemplate approaches and techniques for interpreting Israel in American museums. Session Chair: JULIANA OCHS DWECK (Curator of Academic Engagement, Princeton University Art Museum), with MICHAEL BRENNER (Center for Israel Studies, American University); SHOSHANNA SCHECHTER (Director of Jewish Campus Life, Randolph- Macon College); and LAUREN STRAUSS (Scholar in Residence, American University) 6 pm EMERGING PROFESSIONALS HAPPY HOUR WITH REBOOT (Pay your way) CAJM and Reboot are partnering for this conversation-starting happy hour at DGS Delicatessen Session Chairs: JOSH KANTOR (Outreach and Partnership Manager, Reboot) and GRAVITY GOLDBERG (Director of Public Programs and Visitor Engagement, Contemporary Jewish Museum) TUESDAY FEBRUARY 27

LOCATION UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM (Co-Presenter)

9:00 am TOURS of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Permanent Exhibition and The Wexner Learning Center (doors open 8:30)

10:10 am Featured Speaker: JENN MAER (Design Director, IDEO Design)

11:15 am SNACK BREAK

11:50 am CONCURRENT SESSIONS Session 3-I CROSSING OVER: NAVIGATING STORIES OF IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES Museums of American and Jewish history often explore the narrative of immigration as a key chapter of America’s past. However, immigration and refugee subjects are not always easy to address, whether in the past or as part of the present. The session will explore how we shed light on immigration narratives while navigating inherent sensitivities, and will ask how museums and other cultural organizations can foster dialog about contemporary responses to immigration and refugee issues. Session Chair: ANITA KASSOF (Executive Director, Baltimore Museum of Industry), with REBECCA ERBELDING (Historian, USHMM); MAGDALENA MIERI (Director of Program in Latino History and Culture and Civic Engagement Projects, National Museum of American History); ANNIE POLLAND (Senior Vice President of Education and Programs, Lower East Side Tenement Museum); and ROBERT YERACHMIEL SNYDERMAN (Consultant, Jewish History Museum, Tucson) Session 3-II EXPANSIVE TECHNIQUES: NOVEL APPROACHES TO MAXIMIZING CIVIC IMPACT This session will consider projects and approaches that challenge visitors and institutions to explore pressing issues as models for future practices. Discussants will report on readily adaptable methods for engaging audiences through critical issues of the moment. They will report on novel exhibition and program strategies and offer insights on how museums can redefine their purposes in the 21st century. Session Chair: LISA SASAKI (Director, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center), with AARON GOLDBLATT (Principal, Metcalfe Architecture and Design); MICHAEL HALEY GOLDMAN (Director of Future Projects, USHMM); MARA KURLANDSKY (Project Coordinator for Digital Engagement, National Museum of Women in the Arts); JOHANNA MENDELSON- FORMAN (Adjunct Professor, American University); and LIZ NEELY (Curator of Digital Experience, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum)

CAJM Session 3-III COLLECTING STRATEGIES AND IMPERATIVES While many museums grow out of an instinct to document and preserve, some collect with special urgency and purpose. This panel will discuss major collecting initiatives that have preserved artifacts as evidence, as memory holders, and as key records of the past. It will focus on the responsibilities inherent in such collecting activities, and the criteria that go into collection mandates to support a national narrative. Session Chair: SCOTT MILLER (Director, Curatorial Affairs, USHMM), with MICHAEL GRUNBERGER (Director, National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, USHMM); PETER MANSEAU (Curator of American Religious History, National Museum of American History); JAN RAMIREZ (Chief Curator, National September 11 Memorial Museum); and JACQUELYN SERWER (Chief Curator, National Museum of African American History & Culture)

1 pm PLENARY RESPONSE AND RESPONSIBILITY Museums today are being challenged to produce timely responses to contemporary issues and to create opportunities for dialogue. How can cultural institutions and museums respond meaningfully to current events? How can museums negotiate the tensions inherent in being guardians of cultural heritage while aiming to be agents of response and action? This panel will present some successful approaches for being active participants in community and national conversations. Session Chair: GRAVITY GOLDBERG (Director of Public Programs and Visitor Engagement, Contemporary Jewish Museum), with SARAH LUMBARD (Director, Museum Experience and Digital Media, USHMM); ERIN CARLSON MAST (Executive Director, Lincoln’s Cottage); and SARAH PHARAON (Senior Director of Methodology and Practice, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience)

2:15 pm CONCLUDING REMARKS 3 pm OPTIONAL Exploration and Discussion Visits to Museums on the National Mall Led by CAJM group leaders

OPTIONAL Museums Advocacy Day Meetings on Capitol Hill (by advanced registration only) Meetings scheduled by the American Alliance of Museums

5 pm OPTIONAL Museums Advocacy Day Congressional Reception CAJM colleagues are invited to join museum advocates—as well as members of Congress and their staff—for a Museums Advocacy Day reception following Capitol Hill meetings. WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 28 LOCATION NATIONAL BUILDING MUSEUM

9 am-3 pm PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP (advanced registration) CREATING AN ADDRESS FOR JEWISH CULTURE: BUILDING JEWISH MUSEUMS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY In partnership with the National Building Museum and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington This workshop is designed to help guide Jewish museums as they plan for new facilities. It will explore issues of design and community impact that shape process and forms. Each session will open with framing remarks, followed by small group exercises that address key issues regarding the building process and engage participants in active learning. Workshop Chairs: AVI DECTER (Managing Partner, History Now); ZACHARY P. LEVINE (Director of Exhibitions & Collections, National Building Museum); and ELIZABETH LIVESEY (Archivist, History Associates Incorporated)

CAJM 2018 SPEAKERS American University,wherehedirectstheCenterforIsraelStudies.Heis Atrocities PreventionAct,bipartisanlegislationtoensurethattheUSgovernmentworks Virgiliana, andtheAmericanAcademyforJewishResearch.In2014hewasawarded 1995. She is Manager of National Outreach in the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education 1995. SheisManagerofNationalOutreachintheLevineInstituteforHolocaustEducation Connecticut Collegein2010withdegreesArtHistoryandReligiousStudies,holds undations, corporations, Senior DevelopmentOfficerforExhibitions—raisingfundsfromfoundations,corporations, State ofIsraelandapassionateadvocateJewishdomesticconcerns.SenatorCardin Senate ForeignRelationsCommittee.HehasworkedacrosspartylinestofurtherUS of Israel:TheHistoryanIdeaand,aseditor,AJewsinGermanysince1945, services attheSmartMuseuminChicago,Contemporary ArtsCenterinCincinnati, was re-electedtohissecondtermintheSenate2012.HeservesonForeign conferences, andasBoardChairfortheorganization. of ProgramsandDevelopment.Shehasworkedin museumeducationandvisitor order ofmerittheFederalRepublicGermany.HislatestpublicationsareInSearch on theMuseum’smissionandimpact. International PresidentoftheLeoBaeckInstituteforStudyGermanJewryand and atPortDiscoveryinBaltimore.Shehasserved asaProgramChairforseveralCAJM an MAinArtHistoryfromVirginiaCommonwealthUniversity,whereshespecialized and governmentagenciesfortheMuseum’sexhibitions.Astrovegraduatedfrom an electedmemberoftheBavarianAcademyScience,AccademiaNazionale against civilians.In2015,hewasnamedastheSpecial RepresentativeonAnti-Semitism, across thecountry.ThroughouthercareeratMuseum,shehasproducedpublic and overseesprojectsrelatedtoaudiencenetworkresearch.Previously,sheoversaw in acoordinatedmannerusingitsfullrangeoftoolstohelppreventmassatrocities University inMunichandtheSeymourLillianAbensohnChairIsraelStudiesat Museum of Maryland—as Director of Education for ten years and then as Deputy Director Museum ofMaryland—asDirectorEducationfor tenyearsandthenasDeputyDirector Museum’s DirectorofDevelopment.Previously,she workedfor17yearsattheJewish Post-Holocaust artresponses.SheservesontheboardofCAJM. Racism, andIntoleranceforthe57-nationOSCEParliamentary Assembly. Relations, Finance,EnvironmentandPublicWorks,SmallBusinessEntrepre- Born andraisedinBaltimore,USSenator GRACE ASTROVE both forthcomingin2018. neurship committees.SenatorCardinistheauthorofElieWieselGenocideand human rightsareintegratedintoUSforeignpolicy.Heisalifelongsupporterofthe national securityandtoensurethatgoodgovernance,transparencyrespectfor programs—including lectures,performingartsandfilmseries,aswelleventsfocusing programmatic contentdevelopmentfortheMuseum’s20thanniversarypresentations CHRISTINE BROWN DEBORAH CARDIN MICHAEL BRENNER joined theJewishMuseuminNewYork2012.Sheiscurrently recentlyjoinedthestaffofBaltimoreMuseum ofIndustryasthe joinedthestaffofUnitedStatesHolocaustMemorialMuseumin is ProfessorofJewishHistoryandCultureatLudwig-Maximilian- BEN CARDIN servesasRankingMemberofthe WENDY CLARK is Director of Museums, Visual Arts, and Indemnity at the National Endowment for the Arts. In this position, she manages the NEA’s grantmaking for museums and visual arts, and manages special initiatives such as the Blue Star Museums program. She has three decades of experience in grant-making and special initiatives, including the Rosa Parks Sculpture Competition for the Capitol. Clark previously worked in public affairs, visual arts, and design at the Illinois Arts Council, was an NEA Fellow, and was Chairman of Design Review for the Civic Association of Hollin Hills. She holds a BA from the University of Michigan and studied Elizabethan History at New College, Oxford University.

CHRISTY S. COLEMAN is CEO of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, which aims to tell the story of the Civil War through the eyes of Northerners and Southerners, freed and enslaved blacks, soldiers and civilians, and to interpret how that story still shapes the United States. She began her career as a living history interpreter at Colonial Williamsburg, and later served as Assistant Educator at the Baltimore City Life Museums. She returned to Colonial Williamsburg as a Senior Interpreter, and was promoted to Director of African American Interpretations and Presentations, Director of Midtown Operations, and then Director of Programs. Coleman has also served as CEO and President of the Detroit’s Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History and as a member of the AAM Council.

KINSHASHA HOLMAN CONWILL, Deputy Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, oversees the Museum’s organizational strategy, fundraising, external partnerships, collections, exhibitions and public programs, as well as its daily operations. Conwill was Senior Policy Advisor for the Museums & Community Initiative of the AAM, and Project Director for the New York City Creative Communities’ Leveraging Investments in Creativity program. Prior to that, she was Director of The Studio Museum in Harlem, which she joined as Deputy Director. She held positions at the Museum of the American Indian and the Frank Lloyd Wright Hollyhock House, taught art in LA schools, and was a practicing visual and performance artist. She has served on the boards of AAM, New York’s Municipal Art Society, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

BRIAN I. DANIELS is the Director of Research and Programs for the Penn Cultural Heritage Center at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, a visiting professor in the Sustainable Cultural Heritage Graduate Program at the American University of Rome, and a research associate at the Smithsonian Institution. He received the Society for American Archaeology’s Presidential Recognition Award for his efforts to protect Syrian and Iraqi cultural heritage, and also the Lynn Reyer Award in Tribal Community Development from the Society for the Preservation of American Indian Culture for his work with Shasta Indian communities of northern California.

BRYAN DAVIS is Executive Director of the Jewish History Museum & Holocaust History Center in Tucson, AZ. He is a PhD candidate (ABD) in the Language, Reading & Culture Program at the University of Arizona, and is Adjunct Faculty at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Arizona. Prior to his work at the Jewish History Museum, he was Director of the Jewish Community Relations Council at the Jewish Federation of Southern Arizona. He currently co-chairs the Southern Arizona Hate Crimes Task Force, and serves on the board of CAJM.

CAJM AVI DECTER is the managing partner of History Now, a consulting firm for museums and historic sites. Previously he served as Director of the Jewish Museum of Maryland. He was interpretive planner for core exhibits at both the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Jewish Museum (NY), and has consulted on new museums ranging from the Louisville Slugger Museum to the National Civil War Museum. For 25 years he was a senior advisor to the National Foundation for Jewish Culture, where he organized the Jewish Documentary Film Fund. His book Interpreting American Jewish History at Museums and Historic Sites was published in 2016. In 1977, he was a founder of CAJM, and has served many roles on its Board in recent years, including Board Chair and Immediate Past Chair.

JULIANA OCHS DWECK (2018 Conference Co-Chair), Mellon Curator of Academic Engagement at the Princeton University Art Museum, develops strategies for collections interpretation, creates cross-disciplinary installations, and integrates collections into the university curriculum. She received her BA and MA from Yale University and her PhD from University of Cambridge. Previously, she worked for the National Museum of American Jewish History, the National September 11 Memorial Museum, Yeshiva University Museum, and the Jewish Museum of Maryland; and was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Museum of American History. She is the author of Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel; and her work has appeared in Anthropology Now, History and Anthropology, and The Public Historian.

SOFIA DYAK is the Director of the Center for Urban History, a research and public history institution in Lviv, Ukraine. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences and an MA in History from Central European University. Her research interests include the post-war history of border cities, heritage management, urban planning, and city branding. She is working on a book (Re)Imagined Cityscapes: Lviv and Wrocław after 1944/45. She was a fellow at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Amsterdam), the Institute for Human Sciences (Vienna), the Institute for the Study of Human Rights (Columbia University), and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

REBECCA ERBELDING has been an archivist and curator at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for 14 years. She holds a PhD in American History from George Mason University. She is working as a historian for the Museum’s upcoming exhibition examining the role of Americans during the Holocaust, to open in April 2018. Her first book, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America’s Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, will be published in April.

JOHANNA MENDELSON FORMAN sees the kitchen as the new venue of foreign policy. She has observed the connections between conflict, food, and identity in Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, Iraq, and throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. Forman serves on the Council on Foreign Relations and is a Distinguished Fellow and Director of Food Security at the Stimson Center. She has been a senior official at the US Agency for International Development, United Nations Foundation, UN Mission in Haiti, and the World Bank’s Post-Conflict Unit. She teaches “Conflict Cuisine: an Introduction to War and Peace around the Dinner Table” at American University. Forman holds a JD from Washington College of Law at American University, a PhD in Latin American history from Washington University, and a Master’s of International Affairs from Columbia University. GRAVITY GOLDBERG is the Director of Public Programs and Visitor Experience at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, in a newly minted department created to expand CJM’s goal of being an audaciously welcoming place to the greater community. Since joining The CJM in 2011, Goldberg has developed signature events like Night at the Jewseum and the acclaimed Gallery Chat series. She sits on the advisory board of the Litquake Literary Festival and on the Board of CAJM. In 2006, Goldberg founded Instant City: A Literary Exploration of San Francisco.

Since 2002, AARON GOLDBLATT has been a partner at Metcalfe Architecture and Design, where he specializes in museum services. Recent clients include the National Building Museum, Eastern State Penitentiary, the National Museum of Industrial History, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the New York Botanical Garden. Previously, he was on the senior staff of Please Touch Museum, the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science, all in Philadelphia. Aaron holds an MFA from Rutgers University and a BFA from the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts). He is a trained metal sculptor and potter.

GABRIEL GOLDSTEIN is an independent curator, museum consultant and adjunct professor. Projects have included ones with the Leo Baeck Institute, National Archives, North Carolina Museum of Art, and Wesleyan University. For more than two decades, Goldstein worked in curatorial and senior staff roles at Yeshiva University Museum. He previously worked at the Jewish Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum. He studied at Yeshivat Hamivtar, the University of Toronto, and Bard Graduate Center. He is Founder- Director of Re-Imagining Jewish Education Through Art and a former Board Chair of Beit Rabban Day School and CAJM. Goldstein was an advisor on AAM’s Web Portal for Nazi-Era Provenance and guest curator for the National Archives exhibition “Discovery and Recovery: Preserving Iraqi Jewish Heritage.”

LUDMILA GORDON is a museum exhibition developer and researcher specializing in cultural and political history, with more than twenty years of experience in developing collections and exhibitions in the United States, Canada, and Russia. Most recently, she worked with Ralph Appelbaum Associates to develop content and visual storylines for several museums, including the Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center in Moscow.

MAGDALENA H. GROSS is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland’s College of Education. Her work examines the relationship between school knowledge and cultural knowledge of difficult historical events. Much of her previous work has focused on the WWII past in contemporary Poland. She consults for the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. Gross holds a PhD and MA from Stamford University, an MAT from Dominican University, and a BA from the University of Chicago.

MICHAEL GRUNBERGER joined the staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006, after more than 20 years at Library of Congress. In his role as Director of the National Institute for Holocaust Documentation, he leads the Museum’s efforts to build the collection of record on the Holocaust that is fully accessible and preserved for posterity. He oversees the Museum’s digital collections program, which seeks to reformat the Museum’s analog collections to digital format, as well as to acquire born-digital assets, and to make these accessible globally via the internet to the fullest extent permitted by the law.

CAJM MICHAEL HALEY GOLDMAN is Director of Future Projects at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Future Projects is a small, self-sustaining innovation team designed to research, prototype, and explore emerging technologies that can transform Holocaust memorialization and education. Since joining the Museum in 1994, Goldman has served in a variety of positions, including as Director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors and as the Director of Global Classroom and Evaluation.

MACY B. HART, President and Founder of the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life (ISJL), served as director of the Henry S. Jacobs Camp in Utica, MS for 30 years. He established the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience to preserve the artifacts and history of small Jewish communities across the South. In 2000, he expanded the MSJE into the ISJL, with education, history, rabbinic, museum, program, and community engagement departments serving 13 states. Hart’s leadership and vision have been recognized with prestigious awards from The Covenant Foundation, Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Mississippi Religious Leadership Conference. With a passion for heritage, home, and community, Hart was a founder of Parents for Public Schools, and he has served the Council of American Jewish Museums for many years, including as a pacesetting Chair.

JENNA WEISSMAN JOSELIT is the Charles E. Smith Professor of Judaic Studies & Professor of History at the George Washington University, where she directs two graduate programs in Jewish culture and the arts. She is the author, most recently, of Set in Stone: America’s Embrace of the Ten Commandments as well as a columnist for Tablet magazine.

JOSH KANTER is the Outreach and Partnership Manager at Reboot, responsible for liaising with community partners to maximize the impact of Reboot projects. He brings a wealth of experience in the Jewish community, having worked previously with UJA-Federation of New York, American Jewish World Service, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, and Bend the Arc. Kanter is a co-chair of Advancing Jewish Professionals of New York City, a local group under the JPRO Network umbrella. Originally from Detroit, Kanter holds an MSW in Jewish Communal Leadership from the University of Michigan School of Social Work and earned an advanced certificate in Jewish philanthropy from the Wurzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University.

ANITA KASSOF is Executive Director of the Baltimore Museum of Industry. She previously served as Deputy Director of the Museum of Jewish Heritage and as Associate Director of the Jewish Museum of Maryland. She co-founded Historic Jonestown, Inc. a consortium of cultural and historic sites in East Baltimore, and was a curator at the Baltimore City Life Museums. On the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, she helped to build the Museum’s permanent collection and co-curated its inaugural temporary exhibition. Kassof holds a BA from Duke University and an MA in Modern European History from the University of Maryland. SEAN KELLEY has run all public programming at Eastern State Penitentiary since 1995, when he was hired as the organization’s first full-time employee. He produced the site’s award-winning audio tour in 2002, and has curated nearly 100 site-specific artist installations. In 2014 Kelley oversaw the development of a 16-foot, 1.5 ton bar graph the illustrates the enormous growth in the US prison population since 1970, as well as its companion exhibit, “Prisons Today”, which won the 2016 Overall Award for Excellence at AAM. Kelley visits active prisons and writes critically about prison museums and sites of detention. He has served as adjunct Public History faculty at Rutgers University.

BARBARA KIRSHENBLATT-GIMBLETT is Chief Curator of the Core Exhibition at POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews. She is University Professor Emerita and Professor Emerita of Performance Studies at New York University. Her books include Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage; Image before My Eyes: A Photographic History of Jewish Life in Poland, 1864–1939 (with Lucjan Dobroszycki); and They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust (with Mayer Kirshenblatt). She received honorary doctorates from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the University of Haifa and the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland. She was recently elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She serves on Advisory Boards for CAJM and Jewish museums in Vienna, Berlin, and Moscow.

MARA KURLANDSKY is Project Coordinator for Digital Engagement at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, where she manages the Museum’s website and digital initiatives, and develops content for the web and social media. Previously she was a project coordinator for Gallagher & Associates, where she worked with a variety of museum projects including the American Revolutionary Museum at Yorktown, the Flight 93 National Memorial, and Beit Hatfutsot: The Museum of the Jewish People. With interests in art, feminism, and social justice, Mara believes deeply in the power of museums to promote positive change.

SARAH A. LEAVITT is a curator at the National Building Museum where her exhibitions have ranged from “House of Cars: Innovation and the Parking Garage” to this year’s show “Architecture of an Asylum: St. Elizabeths, 1853-2017.” Her publications include a book about the history of domestic advice and articles on subjects as varied as the history of the pregnancy test and the television show Veronica Mars. She was recently the editor of Taliesin Diary: A Year With Frank Lloyd Wright. Leavitt graduated from Wesleyan University, where her undergraduate thesis focused on the incarceration of “wayward girls.” She holds a PhD in American Studies from Brown University.

LISA YUN LEE is the Executive Director of the National Public Housing Museum, as well as a cultural activist and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As the previous Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, she oversaw a renovation of the house, installed a new permanent exhibition, and reinvigorated its public programming. She has published articles about museums as sites for civic engagement and the democratization of historic preservation. She serves on the boards of the AAM, Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, and 3Arts. She holds a BA from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD from Duke University.

CAJM ZACHARY P. LEVINE (2018 Conference Co-Chair), joined the National Building Museum as Director of Exhibitions & Collections in 2016. He provides strategic and administrative support for exhibition development and for the Museum’s collections. He has worked as a curator and consultant for museums across the US on subjects that intersect Jewish history and art. Levine trained as a historian of east and central Europe, with specialization in the Cold War and Jewish philanthropy. He regularly speaks on a range of topics related to Jewish history and culture, as well as the built environment. Levine has been a member of CAJM’s board since 2013.

ELIZABETH LIVESEY is an Archivist at History Associates Incorporated in Washington, DC. Prior to joining HAI, she worked with the DC Africana Archives Project at the National Museum of American History’s Archives Center. She has also held archival, curatorial, and administrative internships with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, the Jewish Museum of Maryland, and the Council of American Jewish Museums. Livesey holds BA degrees in English and French from the University of Oklahoma and an MA in Jewish Cultural Arts from George Washington University. She has been an intern for the CAJM conference for the last three years.

LAURA L. LOTT is President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), a community of more than 35,000 museum professionals and volunteers, institutions, and corporate partners serving the museum field. Lott served as the Alliance’s Chief Operating Officer for five years before becoming the CEO in 2015. She led the development of the Alliance’s current strategic plan, which emphasizes topics members believe are vital to the future viability, relevance, and sustainability of museums. Lott is also an advocate for strong and engaged boards, and speaks to numerous museum boards each year.

SARAH LUMBARD is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Senior Digital Curator, leading the Levine Institute’s Museum Experience and Digital Media Division. The division is responsible for storytelling across all platforms. Lumbard supervises the creation of digital engagement for global audiences to enhance the 21st century museum experience, showcasing the history, ideas, and approaches that have shaped the USHMM’s thematic exhibitions. Previously, she was NPR’s Vice President for Content Strategy and Operations, and prior to that worked at the Washington Post.Newsweek Interactive.

JENN MAER’s career as a storyteller began at age seven when she penned (well, actually, penciled) her first novel—a 75-page, double-spaced, spiral notebook tour de force entitled Shark! Today, as a Design Director at IDEO, Maer offers storytelling, brand strategy, and creative leadership to a diverse group of clients. Her work has grabbed the attention of the Spark Awards, ISDA IDEA awards, and the Core 77 Design Awards. She is at her happiest when she’s creating things that bypass the brain’s radar and go straight to the heart. Maer also teaches IDEO U’s “Storytelling for Impact” course, where you can learn to do the same. PETER MANSEAU is the Lilly Endowment Curator of American Religious History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, where he recently curated the exhibit “Religion in Early America.” He is the author of eight books, including the memoir Vows, the National Jewish Book Award-winning novel Songs for the Butcher’s Daughter, the travelogue Rag and Bone, the retelling of America’s diverse spiritual formation One Nation, Under Gods, and, most recently, the narrative history The Apparitionists. Manseau received the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature and the Ribalow Prize for Fiction, and he has been an NEA Literature Fellow.

JUDITH MARGLES is Director of the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education in Portland, which opened its new home in June 2017. For 10 years prior she served as Curator at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry. Margles has consulted on exhibition projects for many institutions in Portland and is a frequent speaker at professional meetings. Her newest essay, Cross Cultural Engagement at the Oregon Jewish Museum appears in the 2017 volume Global Mobilities: Refugees, Exiles and Immigrants. Margles is a past Board Chair of CAJM, and a current board member of AAM.

ERIN CARLSON MAST is CEO of President Lincoln’s Cottage. She was a member of the original team that restored and opened the Cottage to the public in 2008. Under her leadership, the Cottage has achieved significant recognition, including a Presidential Medal in 2016, Best Museum off the Mall in 2017, and being named to Washington, DC’s 50 Best Places to work. Two years ago, Mast led the organization through its transition to an independent 501c(3). She is on the councils of AASLH and National History Day, and has written for a variety of publications.

MAGDALENA MIERI is Director of the Program in Latino History and Culture and Civic Engagement Projects at the National Museum of American History. Previously she was Museum Specialist and Director of the Latino Virtual Gallery at the Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives, and Assistant Curator at the Museo de Arte Hispanoamericano in Buenos Aires. A Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, she taught graduate level courses in the US and Spain, and published articles on museum representation and community museums. Mieri has consulted with museums in Argentina, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay and Bolivia. She received her BA in Museum Studies from the Argentine Institute of Museology and an MA in Anthropological Sciences from the University of Buenos Aires.

SCOTT MILLER is Director of Curatorial Affairs at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where he has worked since 1989. Prior to the opening of USHMM to the public in 1993, Miller was a research historian for the Museum’s Wexner Learning Center—a multimedia information center on the Holocaust. In 2001 he was appointed Director of the Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Holocaust Survivors, the Museum’s names- information and tracing center. In 2006 Miller assumed his current position, which oversees the Museum’s archival, artifact, photo, film, music and oral history collections.

CAJM LIZ NEELY is the Curator of Digital Experience at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. As an active professional in the museum community, she served as the 2015 President of MCN, an organization advancing digital transformation in the cultural sector, and is on the board of directors for The Paseo Project whose mission is to transform art through community and community through art in Taos, New Mexico. Recently, she was the Senior Director of Integrated Content at AAM.

SARAH PHARAON is Senior Director of Methodology and practice at the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. She leads the Coalition’s efforts to build a global community of practice across the fields of museum studies, public history, human rights, and transitional justice. She directs its work in North America, specifically on issues of immigration, race, education equity and mass incarceration, and has led two national dialogue initiatives, From Brown v Board to Ferguson and the National Dialogues on Immigration. Prior to her work at the Coalition, she worked as Director of Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and was also the founding Curator of the Arab American National Museum.

ANNIE POLLAND is Executive Vice President for Programs & Interpretation at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, where she oversees exhibits and education. She led the team that created “Under One Roof”, an exhibit featuring three families: one of Holocaust refugees, one of Puerto Rican migrants, and one of Chinese immigrants. Previously she served as Vice President of Education at the Museum at Eldridge Street, where she wrote Landmark of the Spirit, published in 2008. Her 2012 book with Daniel Soyer, The Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920, won the National Jewish Book Award for Jewish Book of the Year. Polland received her PhD in History from Columbia University.

JAN SEIDLER RAMIREZ, PhD, is the founding Chief Curator and Executive Vice President of Collections at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City. Under her guidance over the past 12 years, the Museum’s collection has grown to include thousands of objects, artworks, photographs, films, oral histories and audio artifacts, architectural relics, and other primary evidence materials relevant to 9/11. She previously served as Museum Director at the New-York Historical Society, where she helped to conceive and grow its “History Responds” collection in the early aftermath of the September 11th attacks.

PATTY RHULE is the Director of Exhibit Development at the Newseum, a museum that champions freedom of the press and the First Amendment in Washington, DC. She has been a writer and editor at the Newseum since 2007. Previously, she was an entertainment editor, page one editor, and copy editor at USA Today. She was one of the founding editors of USA Today. Prior to that, she was a reporter and editor in Huntington, WV. DIANE SALTZMAN is Director of the Office of Constituency Engagement at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where she oversees outreach and engagement with key groups, including Holocaust survivors, the Museum’s governing board, Members of Congress, government officials, communal organizations, and NGOs. Her previous positions at the Museum have included Director, Initiative on Holocaust Denial and State-Sponsored Antisemitism and Director and Chief Curator, Collections Division. Prior to joining the USHMM, she spent ten years at the Jewish Museum (NY), where she was Project Manager and co-curator of the Museum’s 11,000-square-foot permanent exhibition. Saltzman has a BA and MA in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania.

LISA SASAKI is the Director of the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC), a migratory museum that brings Asian Pacific American history, art, and culture to communities through innovative museum experiences online and throughout the US. Previously she was Director of the Audience & Civic Engagement Center at the Oakland Museum of California and Director of Program Development at the Japanese American National Museum. Sasaki currently serves as President of the Western Museums Association’s Board of Directors.

SHOSHANNA SCHECHTER recently became the first Director of Jewish Campus Life for Randolph-Macon College. She earned her BA in Anthropology and Jewish Studies from the University of Maryland; she is now pursuing her EdD from the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, where she also earned her MA in Jewish Women’s Studies. Schechter has served a variety of Jewish agencies and institutions, including Young Judaea, Camp Ramah, Hillel, Taglit-Birthright and JDC-Entwine. As an educator, Shoshanna teaches in the Departments of Religious Studies and Women’s Studies at Randolph-Macon College and the University of Texas (El Paso). She served as Executive Director of ALEPH: Alliances for Jewish Renewal, prior to her current position.

LAURA SCHIAVO is the Program Head of Museum Studies at the George Washington University where she teaches museum history and theory and collections management. She has presented at numerous national conferences in the areas of museums and their publics. Two of her current research projects look at the roots of ethnic museums in the US and the concept of inclusivity and diversity in the National Park Service. Schiavo has served as a curator at the National Building Museum; City Museum of Washington, DC; and the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington. She received her PhD in American Studies and publishes in the areas of visual culture and public history.

MARSHA L. SEMMEL (2018 Conference Co-Chair) serves as senior advisor to the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement and as faculty/advisor in Bank Street College of Education’s Graduate Program in Leadership in Museum Education. From 2013-2015, she was senior advisor to the Noyce Foundation’s global Noyce Leadership Institute. She was Director for Strategic Partnerships, Deputy for Museum Services, and Acting Director at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) from 2003-13. At the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), she directed its Division of Public Programs. Semmel has been President and CEO of Conner Prairie and the Women of the West Museum, and she currently serves on the Board of CAJM.

CAJM JACQUELYN DAYS SERWER is Chief Curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, focusing on building the Museum’s foundational collection and developing exhibition projects. Previously she was Chief Curator of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Chief Curator and Curator of Contemporary Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Serwer taught art history at the École des Beaux Arts in Geneva and at Brooklyn College. She holds a doctorate from the City University of New York, an MA from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.

SHARON SHAHID is an editor and museum consultant with more than 20 years of exhibit content development experience. She was the creative force behind many of the Newseum’s galleries and exhibits, including the 8,000-square-foot News History Gallery, the Berlin Wall Gallery, and the Today’s Front Pages Gallery. Shahid came to the Newseum from USA Today, where she was a writer and an associate editor, and part of the editorial staff that founded the national newspaper in 1982. A native of St. Louis and a lifelong advocate of adult literacy, she has a BA in journalism and an MA in Mass Communication.

ROBERT YERACHMIEL SNYDERMAN is a doctoral student in English Literature and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory at the University of Arizona, and a consultant for the Jewish History Museum in Tucson. At the Museum he writes curricula and curates pieces on human rights, Jewish identity, and local history to challenge and correct supremacist narratives. He has exhibited at the De Kijkdoos Project Space in Amsterdam and at the Puffin Foundation in New York City. Since 2007, he has written and directed seven plays, most recently Internal, an adaptation of Lejb Goldin’s recording of starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto. In 2018, he will be a DAAD Research Fellow at the Institute for Art in Context in Berlin.

LAUREN STRAUSS is Scholar in Residence in the Department of History at American University, and specializes in American Jewish cultural and political history. She has taught for 20 years at universities in the Washington, DC area. She holds a PhD in Modern Jewish Studies from the Jewish Theological Seminary, an MA in International Relations from Yale, and a BA from Brandeis. Strauss teaches courses on American Jewish politics, popular culture, and women’s history, and on Yiddish culture, post-Emancipation Jewish history, and modern Jewish travel.

IZABELLA TABAROVSKY is a Senior Program Associate with the Kennan Institute at the Wilson Center. She manages Kennan Institute’s programming in Ukraine and the broader region. Her scholarly interests include politics of historical memory in post-communist space, with a special focus on the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Soviet Union and Jewish cultural heritage in Eastern Europe. She is a frequent speaker on these subjects. Her articles have appeared in Newsweek, Tablet, The National Interest, Wilson Quarterly, Russia File, and others. She holds an MA from Harvard University. KNOX THAMES currently serves as Special Advisor for Religious Minorities in the Near East and South/Central Asia at the US Department of State. The first to serve in this capacity, he received a civil service appointment in September 2015 and leads State Department efforts to address the situation of religious minorities in these regions. For over a decade and a half, Thames has worked in various US government capacities, including at two different US government foreign policy commissions, and is an expert on a range of international affairs issues, including human rights, religious freedom, counter extremism, and international organizations. His country expertise covers the Middle East and South and Central Asia.

AMY E. WATERMAN, CAJM’s Senior Communication Manager, has been a museum professional for more than three decades. As a consultant, she advises cultural organizations on programming, exhibition development, marketing, fundraising, and strategic planning. For 16 years she was Executive Director of the Eldridge Street Project (today the Museum at Eldridge Street). Earlier, she was involved in the creation of the American Museum of the Moving Image and with cultural institutions around the country as Senior Associate of American History Workshop. She is currently guest curator for an exhibition on the Maine Jewish experience that will open at the Maine State Museum later this year.

HELEN WECHSLER serves as a Supervisory Senior Program Officer for museums at IMLS. She has been involved in IMLS initiatives involving 21st century skills, early learning, making, STEM, and digital media and learning. She came to IMLS from the American Architectural Foundation before which she spent 17 years at AAM directing Strategic Initiatives and Special Projects and serving as Director of International and Ethics Programs.

CORINE WEGENER is Director of the Smithsonian Cultural Heritage Rescue Initiative, coordinating the Smithsonian’s outreach role in emergency response and recovery for cultural heritage. Programs include emergency management training for cultural heritage professionals, cultural property protection training for the military, and emergency responses in Syria, Iraq, and Puerto Rico. As an Army Reserve officer, Wegener served on several military deployments, including as Arts, Monuments and Archives officer for the 352d Civil Affairs Command in Baghdad, Iraq. She holds MA degrees in Art History and Political Science from the University of Kansas.

DAVID WEINSTEIN is a Senior Program Officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Public Programs. He holds a BA in American Studies from Brandeis University and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland. He is the author of the books: The Eddie Cantor Story: A Jewish Life in Performance and Politics and The Forgotten Network: Dumont and the Birth of American Television. Weinstein has taught American history, mass communication theory, and video production at the University of Maryland and George Mason University.

MELISSA MARTENS YAVERBAUM is Executive Director of the Council of American Jewish Museums (CAJM), and has worked with museums for 25 years. Previously she served as Director of Collections & Exhibitions at Museum of Jewish Heritage; Curator of Jewish Museum of Maryland; and Curator of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. She also worked at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Newberry Library, and the Field Museum. She has created many interpretive exhibitions for Jewish museums, and is dedicated to the advancement of the Jewish museum profession. She has been involved in CAJM since 2003, and is now developing new programs and strategic directions for the organization.

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