Deborah Schwartz is an independent consultant focused on good governance, community partnerships, and mission driven program planning for nonprofit cultural institutions. From 2006 until 2020, she was president and CEO of Brooklyn Historical Society. Throughout her career, she has consulted with organizations including Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling, Yiddish Book Center, American Federation of Arts, The Berkshire Museum, Harley Davidson Corporation, Jewish Museum (New York), New York State Council on the Arts, The Parrish Art Museum, and the Center for Brooklyn History. Schwartz is board president of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. She is a member of the Board of the Archival Society and serves as vice-chair of the Education Committee at Storm King Art Center. She is a contributing author to Change is Required: Preparing for the Post-Pandemic Museum; Partnership Power: Essential Museum Strategies for Today’s Networked World; and Art Education as a Radical Act: Untold Stories of Education at MoMA. Schwartz contributed to Letting Go? Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2011.
