People on the Move: Metropolitan Museum of Art Names Its New Director

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Max Hollein, director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, has joined the New York arts institution as director. He succeeds Thomas Campbell, who stepped down 14 months ago as director and CEO.

Global War on Terror Memorial Foundation

Michael (Rod) Rodriguez has been tapped to serve as the director of this congressionally-designated organization, which will build a new memorial on the National Mall in Washington. Rodriguez retired from the U.S. Army after 21 years, most of which time he served as a Special Forces Green Beret. He is also executive ambassador of the Green Beret Foundation.

Oxfam America

Fatema Sumar, a regional deputy vice president at the U.S. Millennium Challenge Corporation, has joined the humanitarian aid group as vice president for global programs.

More New CEOs

Carol Cadou has been hired as CEO of the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, in Delaware. She was previously senior vice president for historic preservation and collections at George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

Ian Derrer, general director of the Kentucky Opera, has returned to the Dallas Opera as general director and CEO, effective in July. He previously worked there as artistic administrator from 2014 to 2016.

Deborah Dubois, chief development officer at the Center for Public Integrity, has been named president of the Opens Doors Foundation, the nonprofit arm of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

David Luna has been named executive director of Equal Voice Action, a network of organizations that work with poor families to build economic security. He was most recently the executive director of Open Communities, in Chicago.

Nurit Siegel Smith has joined the House of Blues Music Forward Foundation as its executive director. She was previously deputy director at Grand Performances.

Amy Unmacht, a teacher in Dubuque, Iowa, has been named executive director of the Foundation for Dubuque Public Schools, effective in June.

Roger Zakheim has been appointed the first director of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute’s new Washington office. Previously he was a lawyer at the firm Covington & Burling in its public-policy and government-affairs practice group.

Other Notable Appointments

Dan Allen, vice president for development at DePaul University, has been promoted to vice president for the Office of Advancement, effective July 1.

Lori Bartczak, vice president for programs at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, has joined Community Wealth Partners as senior director of knowledge and content.

Jessica Brooks has been named chief development officer of Sunwealth, a clean-energy investment firm that helps install and finance solar panels in low-income communities. Previously she was senior vice president for development and communications at Boston Community Capital, a community-development financial institution in Boston.

Rudy Carrasco, the U.S. facilitator for Partners Worldwide, has been appointed program director at the M.J. Murdock Charitable Trust.

Justice French, director of advancement at Hebron Christian Academy, is the new development director of Rainbow Village, which works with homeless families in Georgia.

Michael Levine has been named chief knowledge officer at Sesame Workshop. He has spent the past 10 years as the founding executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center.

Philips McCarty, owner of the fund-raising consulting firm Good Scout, has been named vice president for advancement at the Fashion Institute of Technology and executive director of the FIT Foundation.

Rick Schneider, executive vice president and chief operating officer at WETA, a public television station in Washington, has been named senior vice president for advancement at the National Center for Family Philanthropy.

Rory Shaffer-Walsh, executive director of university advancement at Adelphi University, has been named vice president for institutional advancement at Saint Joseph’s College.

Carla Taylor, a senior associate at the Center for the Study of Social Policy, has been appointed a director at Community Wealth Partners.

Departures

Debora Spar, president of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, has resigned after only a year on the job.

Adren Wilson, CEO of Public Allies, an AmeriCorps national service program, has left the charity to serve as deputy chief of staff for Gov. John Bel Edwards of Louisiana.

Legacies

Linda Grunin, a major supporter of the arts, public education, and hospitals in New Jersey, died on April 10. She was 75. She and her husband practiced law together and co-founded the Jay and Linda Grunin Foundation in 2013. They donated $5.75 million for a performing-arts theater at Ocean County College in 2014, and $3.5 million for a neuroscience institute at the Community Medical Center in Toms River, N.J.

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