Deborah Ziska

Deborah Ziska is president of Friends of the Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States. A native of Washington, DC, she is a museum communications consultant, writer, and public speaker, who contributes to the Cultural Freedom Project on Substack. She is the immediate past chair of the International Council of Museums International Committee for Communications, Marketing and Audience Engagement. Over a period of twelve years, she taught “Expanding Roles of Museum Marketing and Communications” and “Museums of the Americas: Facing Challenges in the 21st Century” in the Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies graduate programs of Johns Hopkins University. For two decades Deborah was the innovative and award-winning chief of press and public information at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, where she began as a publicist in 1988. Previously, Ziska worked in public relations and fundraising leadership capacities in education, health, television, working women’s rights, and international development.