Lori Fogarty is the director and CEO of the Oakland Museum of California. Since 2006, Fogarty has worked to oversee and guide all Museum programmatic and administrative operations and has transitioned OMCA from a public/private cultural institution supported by the City of Oakland and the Oakland Museum of California Foundation to an independent nonprofit organization with an innovative new organizational structure. Prior to her current position, Fogarty was executive director of the Bay Area Discovery Museum and was senior deputy director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Fogarty has received major recognition in the museum and nonprofit fields as the recipient of the John Cotton Dana Award for Leadership from the American Alliance of Museums and the Hank Russo Outstanding Fundraising Professional Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals.