Carole Charnow

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Charnow is a member of the Community Services Board of the Dimock Health Center in Roxbury, serves on the executive committee of the Boston Arts Academy, and is  on the Board of the American Alliance of Museums. She is Vice-Chair of the Boston Arts Leaders Coalition and serves as Vice Chair of both the Green Ribbon Commission Cultural Group, and the Boston Chamber of Commerce Climate and Energy Committee. She is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Non-Profit Practice at the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University and was named a Barr Fellow in the class of 2015. Charnow is a recipient of the Emerson College Distinguished Alumni Award, the Berklee College Urban Service Award, the New England Museum Association Excellence Award, and the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Pinnacle Award, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Emerson College and a Masters of Arts from the University of London.

Prior to coming to the Museum, Charnow was the founder and General Director of Opera Boston, where she produced 50 original opera productions at the Cutler Majestic Theatre in Boston, including the world premiere of Madame White Snake, jointly produced with the Beijing Music Festival. The opera toured to China in the fall of 2010, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2011, the first Pulitzer for an opera in 49 years.

August 2023