Mindy Duitz

Mindy Duitz, is a consultant to Sterling Martin Associates in the firm’s Nonprofit Practice. With over twenty-five years of experience as a museum director and arts management consultant, Mindy is well versed in the administrative and philosophical issues facing emerging arts organizations as well as those related to established ones. As the first director of the the Staten Island Children’s Museum, she brought a new institution from concept to reality, and as director of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum – the world’s first museum for children (1899) – she had the experience of revitalizing an established one.

Mindy holds a Master’s Degree in Art History and served as a member of the board of the American Association of Museums (AAM). She has taught in the NYU Museum Studies Program and the Museum Management Program in Boulder, Colorado; she chaired the Association of Children’s Museums’ Task Force to develop standards for the field; and she was a member of the AAM Excellence and Equity Task Force.

For the past twelve years, Mindy has been a consultant to museums, arts and arts education organizations, foundations, and other nonprofit groups. She specializes in strategic planning and project coordination, and she provides interim management to organizations during periods of transition. In addition, Mindy spent four years as a Program Development Fellow at the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) and was responsible for developing and implementing a national Arts Initiative directed at increasing access to the arts for under-served audiences.

Contact Mindy: mindyduitz@verizon.net