Emily Pinkowitz is the Director of Education at the Portland Audubon. She has fifteen years’ experience leveraging education and engagement strategies to build equity in public spaces. As Director of Programming & Engagement at WCS, she worked with teams at five parks across New York to implement an inclusive, audience-driven approach to education, and spearheaded a new city-wide initiative to democratize access to career training for 1,400 young people who work and learn across WCS parks. As Director of Programs & Education at Friends of the High Line during the park’s first six years, she initiated arts, history, nature and design programs for all ages and launched community engagement and economic justice initiatives with local public housing residents. Prior to the High Line, she worked as an educator and researcher in a number of museums, including the Oakland Museum of California, where she used visitor studies as a tool to incorporate the voices of local Black, Latino and Asian-American communities in the redesign of the Gallery of California Art, and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, where she worked to redesign the Kitchen Conversations program to engage visitors in reflective conversation about contemporary immigration. She holds an MA in Museum Studies from NYU, where she was a Museum Studies Fellow and an American Alliance of Museums Diversity Fellow, and served on the Board of the New York Museum Educators Roundtable from 2013-2017.

Board Member Since: 2019

Current Position: Member of the Communications Team