Lauren Haynes is Head Curator, Governors Island Arts, and Vice President at the Trust for Governors Island in New York City. Haynes has held curatorial positions at institutions across the US, including the Queens Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Studio Museum in Harlem. She serves on the board of the Association of Art Museum Curators and on the visiting committee for the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College. Haynes was a 2018 Center for Curatorial Leadership fellow and a recipient of a 2020 ArtTable New Leadership Award. In 2023, President Joe Biden appointed Haynes to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House, on which she currently serves. Haynes will speak about her work as a curator and within the museum field.