New York Transit Museum
Amy Raffel, Ph.D., serves as the Public Programs Manager at the New York Transit Museum since September 2022. Previously, Amy held the position of Head of Content at CAA Advancing Art & Design, overseeing a team focused on academic content and events. Amy's experience includes role as the Andrew Mellon Interpretation Research Fellow at Queens Museum, where research and interpretative strategies for various audiences were developed. A Senior Genome Contributor at Artsy, contributions were made to The Artsy Genome Project, alongside serving as a Research Fellow to the Curator at Large. Amy's past roles also include curriculum design for online art historical courses at StrongMind, public engagement at the James Gallery, and teaching at Lehman College. Academic credentials include a Ph.D. in Contemporary Art History from The Graduate Center, CUNY, a Master’s Degree from The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and dual Bachelor's Degrees from Penn State University.
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New York Transit Museum
The New York Transit Museum, one of the city's leading cultural institutions is the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history, and one of the premier institutions of its kind in the world. The Museum explores the development of the greater New York Metropolitan region through the presentations of exhibitions, tours, educational programs, and workshops dealing with the cultural, social, and technological history of public transportation. Since its inception forty years ago, the Museum, housed in a historic 1936 IND subway station in Brooklyn Heights, has grown in scope and popularity. As custodian and interpreter of the region's extensive public transportation networks, the Museum strives to share, through its public programs, this rich and vibrant history with local, regional, and international audiences.