ICOM-US Board of Directors

Co-Chairs 2023–2026

Arthur Affleck
Executive Director
Association of Children's Museums
Arlington, VA

Kate Quinn

Philidelphia, PA

Treasurer

Secretary

Douglass W. McDonald
Retired CEO
The Alamo, Cincinnati Museum Center & National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Cincinnati, OH

Board of Directors

Bridget C. Coughlin, Ph.D.
President and CEO
Shedd Aquarium
Chicago, IL

Scott Cooper, Ph.D.
President and CEO
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

Jason Crya
Executive Director
Natural History Museum of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

Elizabeth Duggal
Former COO
Guggenheim Museum

Joe D. Horse Capture
Vice President of Native Collections, Chief Curator
Autry Museum of the American West
Los Angeles, CA

Dr. George Jacob

Healoha Johnston
Director of Cultural Resources and Curator
Hawaii and Pacific Arts and Culture at the Bishop Museum

Lyndel King
Emeritus, Director & Chief Curator
Weisman Art Museum
Minneapolis, MN

Lisa Kim
Gallery Director
Ford Foundation
New York, NY

Leslee Michelsen, Ph.D.
Director
National Museum of American Diplomacy
U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC

Patsy Phillips
Director
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA)
Santa Fe, NM

Julian Siggers, Ph.D. 
President and CEO
Field Museum of Natural History
Chicago, IL

Bonnie W. Styles
Executive Director
Association of Science Museum Directors
Springfield, IL

Technical Advisors to the Board (Appointed by Co-Chairs, Non-Voting)

W. Richard West, Jr.
President & CEO Emeritus, Autry National Center of the American West; Founding Director & Director Emereti, National Museum of the American Indian Smithsonian Institution, Los Angeles, CA

Members Ex-Officio (According to ICOM-US Bylaws) 

Jane E. Klinger
Chair, ICMEMO
Special Advisor and Senior Research Conservator, US Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC

Christina Linsenmeyer
Chair, CIMCIM
Associate Curator, Morris Steinert Collection of Musical Instruments, Yale University
New Haven, CT

Diana Pardue
Chair, DRMC
Director, Museum Services Division
Statue of Liberty & Ellis Island
Immigration Museum
Liberty Island
New York, NY 

Glenn Perkins
Chair, CAMOC
Curator of Community History, Greensboro History Museum, Greensboro, NC

Founder, Agency, Rockville, MD

Sally Yerkovich
Chair, ETHCOM
Professor, Museum Anthropology, Columbia University
Director of Educational Exchange and Special Projects, The American-Scandinavian Foundation

Deborah Ziska
Consultant, Washington, DC