Leadership

Our main job as the MCA Leadership team is to work together towards the development and execution of the MCA Strategic Plan, a multi-year project that is building new museum infrastructures through the lens of inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (I.D.E.A.) and operational stability.
Through the Strategic Plan, we aim to match programming and resources with the priorities of our staff, artists, and public by establishing channels for dialogue and facilitating ongoing conversations on the urgent issues of our time.
We are also deeply invested in creating an environment of staff wellbeing and building infrastructures that offer staff support in and outside of the museum walls, and that prioritize career development at all levels of employment.
We acknowledge that it takes work to grow, improve, and better our world, and that we cannot enact the goals of the Strategic Plan without care and without input from the people we serve.
We believe we are stronger when we are in conversation with one another, and hope you join us in this ongoing work and dialogue. If you would like to share your thoughts with us or learn more about the many meaningful conversations taking place within our community, please fill out our contact form.
In our mission towards making the MCA a more accessible and equitable place for all, we also invite you to learn more about MCA Leadership, Board, and museum policies and operations through our publicly available Annual Reports, Code of Conduct, and EOO Statement. Thanks for taking the time to get to know us—we hope to see you soon.
Pritzker Director
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Madeleine Grynsztejn
Pritzker Director
Senior Leadership
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Chief Communications Officer
Scott Hendrickson
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Chief Development Officer
Stacey Recht
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Chief Finance Officer
Wes Moran
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Chief People Officer
Josh Mann
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Chief of Strategy and Board Relations Officer
Courtney Rowe
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Deputy Director and Chief of Curatorial Affairs
Dr. Joey Orr
Trustees
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Chair
Bill Silverstein
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Immediate Past Chair
Cari B. Sacks*
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Vice Chairs
Leslie Bluhm
John B. Harris -
Secretary
Tarrah Cooper Wright
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Treasurer
Michael Canmann
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Trustees
Sara Albrecht
Michael Alper
Peter J. Barack
Marlene Breslow-Blitstein
Marc Brooks
Robert Buford
Ellen-Blair Chube
David Cocagne
Carol Cohen
Nancy C. Crown
Dimitris Daskalopoulos
Laura Davis
Robert Defares
Lisa Duarte
Lois Eisen
Nicholas Giampietro
Madeleine Grynsztejn**
Jack Guthman
Nickol R. Hackett
King Harris*
Jana Hees
Cynthia Hunt
Anne L. Kaplan*
Danny Kaufman
Guy Lakonishok
Liz Lefkofsky
Jonathan Levin
Ron Levin
James H. Litinsky
Marquis D. Miller
Sundeep Mullangi
Martin Nesbitt
Michael O’Grady*
Lauren Peterson**
Carol Prins
Eve J. Reppen
Nathaniel Robinson
Eric Sedler
Ilan Shalit
Robin Loewenberg Tebbe
Nigel F. Telman
Demetra Vassilatos
Dia S. Weil
Michael Werner
Helen Zell* -
Life Trustees
John D. Cartland*
Larry Fields
Marshall Front
Helyn D. Goldenberg*
James A. Gordon
Mary Ittelson*
Don Kaul
Sally Meyers Kovler*
H. Gael Neeson
Penny Pritzker*
Dorie Sternberg
Daryl Gerber Stokols
Marjorie Susman
Allen M. Turner* -
Emeritus Trustees
Jennifer Aubrey
Julie Bernstein
Gerhard Bette
Donald J. Edwards
Laura Keidan Martin
Sylvia Neil
Kate Neisser
Lorna Simpson -
Artist Trustee
Nick Cave
* Past Chair
** Ex-Officio
+ In Memoriam
As of June 30, 2026
Funding
Funding is provided by Leadership in Arts Museums, an initiative to create more racial equity in arts museum leadership, supported by the Ford Foundation, Mellon Foundation, Pilot House Philanthropy and Alice L. Walton Foundation.
