Moderator

Omar Eaton-Martinez, Senior Vice President for Historic Sites, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Omar is the host of The Museum J.E.D.I. Show podcast that convenes discussions on the intersections of museums and social justice. Currently, he is the Senior Vice President for Historic Sites at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, where he leads the preservation, interpretation, and overall stewardship of 28 historic sites across the country to tell the full American story.

He has had leading roles in racial equity organizations like Museums and Race: Transformation and Justice, Museum Hue as well as a part of the Museum as Site for Social Action

project. Omar participated as an American Alliance of Museums Diversity. Equity. Accessibility. Inclusion (DEAI) Senior Fellow, who is dedicated to diversifying museum boards.

Omar is the current President of the Board of Directors for the Association of African American Museums and a member of the Executive Council for the Association for the Study of African

American Life and History. Additionally, he is a gubernatorial appointee to the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the first commission of its kind in the country.

Speaker

Regina Bain, Executive Director, Louis Armstrong House Museum

Regina Bain is an artist and educator serving as the Executive Director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum. In the midst of the reverberations of slavery, Jim Crow laws and the great migration, Armstrong became America’s first Black popular music icon. The Museum preserves his home and archives and develops programs grounded in the values of artistic excellence, education and community. This year, Ms. Bain will open the new 14,000 sq. foot Armstrong Center housing a multimedia exhibit curated by Jason Moran, a 75-seat performance space, and the 60,000-piece Armstrong Archives -- the largest archives of any jazz musician and one of the largest of any Black musician.

Previous to her appointment at LAHM, Ms. Bain served as Associate Vice President of the Posse Foundation -- a national leadership and college access program. Bain’s efforts helped to increase Posse's national student graduation rates for four consecutive years. Bain recently served on the Yale Board of Governors,  and is currently the co-chair of Culture @3’s anti-racism subcommittee. She earned her BA and MFA from Yale University.

Speaker

Logan Sisley, Acting Head of Collections, Hugh Lane Gallery & Francis Bacon Studio

Logan Sisley was born in Aotearoa New Zealand, where he studied art history at the University of Otago, Dunedin, and at the University of Auckland. He moved to Scotland in 2000 and worked for the National Library of Scotland, the National Galleries of Scotland and Edinburgh College of Art. From 2007 he was Exhibitions Curator at the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, where is now Acting Head of Collections. Hugh Lane Gallery he curated Phoenix Rising: Art and Civic Imagination, Cecil King: Present in Time Future, Joseph Beuys: From The Secret Block to Rosc. He co-curated Studio & State: The Laverys and the Anglo-Irish Treaty (at the National Museum of Ireland) and Eva Gonzalès is what Dublin needs (in partnership with the National Gallery, London). He has written on modern and contemporary art and architecture including Francis Bacon, Eithne Jordan, Sean Lynch, John Lavery, family photography and post-impressionism in Ireland.