Hilary Whitham Sánchez is Director of Development, managing VLA’s dedicated community of supporters. 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 holds a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania and maintains a practice as an independent art historian; to learn more about her academic work click here. She and her husband, a filmmaker, live in Queens with their daughter.