Dr. Hilary Whitham Sánchez is Director of Development, managing VLA’s dedicated community of supporters. An art historian, she has more than fifteen years of experience in institutional advancement for organizations such as the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Whitham Sanchez was the lead curator on the internationally recognized digital exhibition Philly Necrofutures, and her research has been published in Modernism/modernity (Johns Hopkins University Press) and liquid blackness (Duke University Press). To learn more about her academic work click here. Whitham Sanchez holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, an MA from the City University of New York, and a BA summa cum laude from Fordham University. She and her husband, a filmmaker, live in Queens.