NMAAHC Appoints Caribbean American Affiliate Director for Exterior Affairs – South Florida Caribbean Information

WASHINGTON, DC – Denise Robinson Simms was appointed as Affiliate Director of Exterior Affairs of the Smithsonian Establishment National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).  

On this function, Simms will direct and coordinate all facets of the Workplace of Public Affairs, Workplace of Public Programming, Workplace of Particular Occasions, and the Workplace of Customer and Visitor Companies. She can even function the Museum’s liaison to the Smithsonian’s Workplace of Authorities Relations. As a member of the Museum Director’s senior administration staff, Simms will work carefully with senior employees in setting priorities and devising methods for advancing the Museum’s aims. 

Born in Maryland, Denise is a baby of immigrants from Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados. Denise joined the employees of the NMAAHC as Supervisor of Particular Occasions in February 2016, simply seven months earlier than the historic grand opening occasions of the Smithsonian Establishment’s nineteenth Museum. After managing, coordinating, and aiding the NMAAHC Grand Opening Group with producing the entire celebrations and Museum Dedication, Denise started managing the each day operations of the Museum’s first Workplace of Particular Occasions. The Museum has hosted 1000’s of events and public applications every year and has welcomed over 8 million guests since opening on September 24, 2016.

 “I’m grateful for the chance to help a really hardworking staff as we proceed to do the work of telling the unvarnished fact of American Historical past by the African American lens.”

Profession Profile

Denise has spent the vast majority of her profession on the Smithsonian, working for 10 years within the Workplace of Particular Occasions on the Nationwide Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) as Particular Occasions Coordinator after which Supervisor of Particular Occasions.

Earlier than her time at NMAI, she labored as Particular Occasions Coordinator on the Nationwide Museum of American Historical past (NMAH) preceded by a number of internship appointments inside the Museum. Previous to the Smithsonian, Denise labored in her hometown on the Baltimore Museum of Artwork because the Board Liaison from 2004-2005.

Training

 In 2004 Denise earned her Grasp’s diploma in Museum Research from The George Washington College and a Bachelor’s diploma in Communication Arts and Artwork Historical past at Hood School in Frederick, Maryland in 2002.