Hadassah St. Hubert, Ph.D. joined MSAC’s staff in 2026 as a Program Director, Independent Artist Services, with over 15 years of experience in arts and humanities administration, cultural preservation, and philanthropy. Prior to this role, she was a former Senior Program Officer in the Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). She also served the former Council on Library Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellow in Data Curation for Latin American and Caribbean Studies with the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) at Florida International University (FIU).
Hadassah is originally from Queens, NY and a historian of World’s Fairs and Exhibitions. She received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Miami specializing in Caribbean, Latin American, and African Diasporic history. Her experience includes digital humanities, post-custodial archives, provenance, archival preservation, community archives, oral histories, collaborations across cultural institutions, digitizing endangered collections, program assessments, as well as nurturing emerging scholars and artists. She currently serves on the Board of Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator, a Miami-based organization that promotes, trains, and exhibits the diverse talents of emerging artists from the African, Latin, and Caribbean Diasporas through an artist-in-residence program, international exchanges, community arts events and a dynamic exhibition program collaborating with art spaces.