Laura B. Roberts, principal of Roberts Consulting, was executive director of the New England Museum Association, a regional affiliate of the American Association of Museums from 1988 to 1994. Prior to her tenure at NEMA, she was director of education at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, Mass., the U.S.S. Constitution Museum in Boston, Mass., and the Rhode Island Historical Society. From 1994 to 1996, she was executive director of the Boston Center for Adult Education.

Laura currently chairs the advisory board of the Tufts University Art Gallery and serves on the University Gifts of Art Committee, charged with oversight of the Tufts art collection. She is vice chair of the board of directors of First Night, Boston and is leading that organization’s strategic planning effort. She is treasurer of the board of the Institute for Learning Innovation, a leader in the assessment of the effectiveness of informal learning organizations. Her prior board memberships include the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities, the community advisory board of WGBH, and the Education Committee (EdComm) of AAM.

Laura holds an M.B.A. in public and nonprofit management, with high honors, from Boston University School of Management, an M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York, and a B.A. in Social Anthropology, magna cum laude, from Harvard University.

Since 1991, she has been teaching graduate students in arts and nonprofit management. Currently, Laura is an adjunct faculty member in museum studies graduate programs at Tufts University and Bank Street College of Education. She previously taught at Boston University School of Management and Lesley University. She is on the faculty of the Seminars in Historic Administration and is a frequent presenter at professional meetings and conferences.

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