Brooke Davis Anderson is the Executive Director of Prospect New Orleans. From 2010 to 2012, she was Deputy Director of Curatorial Planning at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, where she oversaw the Watts Towers Conservation, and from 1999 to 2010, she was Director and Curator at The Contemporary Center and the Henry Darger Study Center at the American Folk Art Museum in New York. She is a noted authority on contemporary art, including work by self-taught and outsider artists. Anderson is the author of a number of books, including Martin Ramirez: The Last Works (2008) and Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Art Museum (2001), in addition to numerous articles and essays.