CAREER SYNOPSIS
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Boston Public Library:
Lead Curator & Manager of the Arts (2019-present)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston:
John Singer Sargent Archives & Special Collections Archivist (project, 2018-2019)
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University:
Interim Director < Deputy Director <Manager of the Collection (2010-2018)
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum:
Archivist & Manager of the Collection < Manager of Artist Programs (1998-2010)
EDUCATION
Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, ICCROM, Prince Claus Fund
Leadership certification First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis Brabant, Netherlands
“Leading Change in a Volatile, Uncertain, Chaotic and Ambiguous World”, 2018
Certified: First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (ICCROM),
Washington, DC, 2016
Simmons College, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Boston, MA
MS with a concentration in archival management, 2007
Hampshire College Amherst, MA
BA, Anthropology & Art History, 1998
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Consulting Partner: International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM)
Expert Member: UNESTeam (Roster of Experts, UNESCO) for Syrian Heritage Emergency Response
Research Associate: International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life, Brandeis University
Creator: Citizen Archivist Training scheme for the Protection of Refugee Records
Advisory Board Member: The Northeast Document Conservation Center
Founder: MANNA Library for the Homeless & MANNA Ekphrastic Writing Group at the MFA, Boston