Ruby Lerner

Ruby Lerner is an American arts executive. She is the founder and former Executive Director of Creative Capital, an arts foundation, from 1999 to 2016. In 2017, Lerner was the inaugural Herberger Institute Policy Fellow at Arizona State University and Senior Fellow to the Patty Disney Center for Life and Work at CalArts. She was appointed to the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts board in 2016 and serves on many advisory boards, including New Inc, The Ackland Museum and Arts Everywhere, both at UNC-Chapel Hill, and the Kenan Institute advisory board for UNC-School of the Arts in Winston Salem, among many others. Currently, she serves as a consultant to the Arts Initiative at the Open Society Foundation, working on the Foundation's International Soros Arts Fellowship.