NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum announced the election of two new members to its Board of Trustees: Allison Binns and Martha J. Fleischman. Lawrence R. Ricciardi, President of the Board, said, “The Trustees and I are very pleased to welcome these two outstanding women to the Morgan’s Board. Their experience, expertise, and dedication to the arts will bring so much to the Morgan as we approach our 2024 centennial and beyond.” Colin B. Bailey, the Director of the Morgan, added, “We look forward to working with these exceptional board members to fulfill our commitment to facilitating close, meaningful encounters with great works of human achievement for a wide audience.”

Allison Binns is Global Head of ESG and Sustainable Investing for alternative asset manager Angelo Gordon & Co. She focuses on environmental, social, and governance integration and sustainable investing approaches across investment verticals and is responsible for sustainability reporting.

Prior to joining the firm, Binns was an Executive Director for Global Sustainability Research at Morgan Stanley, where she headed ESG research across fixed-income asset classes and led corporate governance research for equities. Previously, Binns worked for Chevron, where she held a number of senior advisory roles in ESG and geopolitical risk, and for the Office of the Commissioner of Baseball and the Boston Red Sox, where she focused on salary arbitration and international baseball concerns. In addition to her role as President of the Board of the Poetry Society of America, she serves on the boards of the FDR Four Freedoms Park Conservancy and the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Binns received her B.A. in Sociology and Latin American Studies from Princeton University and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University.

Martha J. Fleischman is a Trustee and Chairman Emerita of the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, she is the President of Kennedy Galleries, now a private dealer in American art of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries. Previously, she was the publisher of the scholarly magazine the American Art Journal, now accessible on JSTOR.

Fleischman has served on the boards of New York Public Radio, in which role she co-chaired the Campaign to Save Classical Music Radio in New York City, which purchased WQXR for public radio; the Art Dealers Association of America; Science Friday Initiative; and Democracy Now! She is currently a Trustee of both the American Friends of the British Museum and Rare Book School. A William Cullen Bryant Fellow of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she is also a member of the museum’s Friends of Objects Conservation. Fleischman has been a member of the Grolier Club since 2006 and serves on the advisory boards of the musical organizations TENET Vocal Artists and New York Festival of Song. She is currently producing three monographs about significant American artist-metalsmiths of the twentieth century.