Alice M. Greenwald

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Alice M. Greenwald is a museum curator and administrator, with expertise in history, ethnic heritage, and memorial museums. She was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum (aka 9/11 Memorial & Museum) from January 2017^[1] through early October 2022.^[2] In 2021, she announced that she was leaving the post.^[3]Greenwald began her affiliation with the project in 2006,^[4] serving as the founding Museum Director and Executive Vice President for Exhibitions, Collections and Education of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum from 2006 to 2016.^[1][4][5] Before joining the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, Greenwald was the Associate Museum Director, Museum Programs, at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum^[6] in Washington, D.C., from 2001 to 2006, having worked for the previous 14 years as an advisor to the project.^[7]

Greenwald has an M.A. in the History of Religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School, and a B.A. with concentrations in English Literature and Anthropology from Sarah Lawrence College. ^[5][8]

From 1986-2001, Greenwald was the principal of Alice M. Greenwald/Museum Services, working for clients including the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Industry, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Historical Society of Princeton. Greenwald has been executive director of the National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia (1981–86); acting director (1980), curator (1978–81) and assistant curator (1975–78) of the Hebrew Union College Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, and curatorial assistant at the Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago.

• No Day Shall Erase You: The Story of 9/11 as Told at the September 11 Museum (2016)

In 1973, she was awarded a Danforth Graduate Fellowship. ^[9][10] In 2007, she delivered the commencement address at Sarah Lawrence College.^[5] In 2023, Greenwald received the Legacy Award from the VOICES Center for Resilience.^[11]