Joan H. Baldwin

A Maryland native, Joan Baldwin met her co-author Anne Ackerson while working as a museum consultant, a friendship that led to a decade-long collaboration at the Museum Association of New York (MANY). During her tenure at MANY, Baldwin wrote three monographs (on mission, hiring and staff development as well as responsible relationship building for corporate philanthropy); white papers on next-generation leadership and succession planning. She is the principal writer for the blog Leadership Matters https://leadershipmatters1213.wordpress.com/. In 2017 four of LeadershipMatters posts were featured in The Museum Blog Book https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Blog-Book-Joan-Baldwin/dp/1910144843. In June 2017, Routledge published Baldwin and Ackerson's latest book, Women in the Museum: Lessons from the Field https://www.amazon.com/Women-Museum-Workplace-Joan-Baldwin/dp/1629582352/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=.

Together, Baldwin and Ackerson are founders of Gender Equity in Museums. https://www.genderequitymuseums.com/. Baldwin is Curator of Special Collections at The Hotchkiss School.