She also served as a trustee on the board of San Francisco’s Sterne School, for students who learn differently and who benefit from a small, personalized learning environment.

She served on the leadership circle of the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts-a nonprofit exhibition venue and research institute at the California College of the Arts.

Peterson was an early board member and served as Co-chair of the Development Committee for the Tipping Point community, which fights poverty in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also serves on the Founders Circle for Every Mother Counts, a New York City-based maternal health provider that operates on a global basis. Peterson is a member of the Chairman’s Circle at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Also at SFMOMA, she is a member of the International Contemporaries and Development Committees. She is a Trustee of SFMOMA, where she currently serves as Co-chair of the Collectors’ Forum. Gina Peterson, President of The Peterson Family Foundation, is a collector of contemporary art with her husband, Stuart. She has avidly collected modern and contemporary art and supported the Museum’s activities in this area, together with her late husband, Don. She has held leadership positions at The New York Public Library, where she served as Chairman of the Board, and the High Line, where she was Co-Chairman and then Chairman of the Board. Currently, she is writing a book on how gardens and the process of their creation enrich lives. She conceived and edited two anthologies on the value and significance of urban public spaces- City Squares, Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World and City Parks: Public Places, Private Thoughts-both published by HarperCollins. She was then a senior features editor at Vogue, where she remains a contributing editor. She was formerly an investment banker at Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers, where she became a Vice President in Corporate Finance. Marron’s career spans investment banking, magazine journalism, book publishing, and public service. “They have served diligently and creatively on the boards and in the organizations with which they are affiliated, and we look forward to working with them in their new capacity at The Met.” “It gives me great pleasure to welcome Catie and Gina to the Board of The Met,” said Mr. The incumbents will serve as Elective Trustees.

The election took place at the January 14 meeting of the Board and was announced by Daniel Brodsky, the Museum’s Chairman. Marron and Gina Peterson to its Board of Trustees, it was announced today. (New York, January 14, 2020)-The Metropolitan Museum of Art has elected Catherine C.

City Parks by Catie Marron