From NJCH:
The New Jersey Council for the Humanities welcomed Dr. Sharon Ann Holt as its new Executive Director. Dr. Holt succeeds Jane Brailove Rutkoff, who retired in 2011.
Holt brings a wealth of experience to NJCH. She founded a nonprofit outreach organization Living Legacy Chautauqua and served as director of programs and outreach for the Mid-Atlantic Regional Center for the Humanities. Dr. Holt curated an exhibit at the South Street Seaport Museum and directed publications and programs at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Before coming to NJCH, she spent three years as the executive director of Sandy Spring Museum in Maryland. In 2010, Holt received the President’s Award from the Greater Olney Civic Association for her her work at the Sandy Spring Museum.
She is the author of Making Freedom Pay: North Carolina Freedpeople Working for Themselves and the forthcoming Constructing a Modern Past: Museums, Democracy, and the 21st Century.
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