Speakers

  • Linda Harrison
  • Director and CEO
  • The Newark Museum of Art

As the Director and CEO of The Newark Museum of Art, a large, complex, urban museum campus, Linda plays a strategic and unifying role for the organization with the City and fellow anchor Institutions.

Linda revels in developing and communicating an inspiring vision that is inclusive, achievable, and sustainable. ensuring financial sustainability for the Museum, strengthen and expanding the Museum’s ties to its community.

During the first of her three-year vision plan, Linda established a new Senior Leadership Team and revamped the organization for more engaging community impact with an extensive DEAI Racial and Gender Equity Framework developed and implemented internally and externally.

Linda currently serves on the following Board of Trustees, Alliance of American Museum Directors (AAMD), American Alliance of Museums (AAM), Regional Planning Association, (RPA) Art Pride, NJ, Newark Alliance Collaborative and the City of Newark Re-Opening and Recovery Strike Force.