Deborah Schwartz

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 (now the Center for Brooklyn History). 

Prior to her tenure at BHS, Schwarts was the Deputy Director for Education at MoMA, and Vice Director for Education and Programs at the Brooklyn Museum. Schwartz is board president of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums; a member of the Board of the Archival Society (NYC); and 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. She currently working on a history of the New York Hall of Science, to be published in 2026.