Melissa Martens Yaverbaum

Melissa Martens Yaverbaum is Executive Director of the Council of American Jewish Museums. She has worked with museums for 25 years, and formerly was the Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City, where she curated the exhibitions Emma Lazarus: Poet of Exiles and Project Mah Jongg. For 10 years prior, she was Curator of the Jewish Museum of Maryland, where she created exhibitions on Jewish department stores, synagogue architecture, Jewish fashion and beauty, and Jewish vacation culture.