David Snider oversees all of PEM’s learning and community engagement efforts, including public programming, internships and fellowships, community partnerships and educational programming from preschool to postgraduate studies. His focus is to develop an array of inclusive offerings that engage visitors of all ages and backgrounds and to cultivate partnerships with schools, universities, museum volunteers and community organizations at the local, national and international levels. He holds an M.F.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and earned his bachelor’s in English Literature and Russian Language from Dickinson College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa.

Dan Lipcan (the Ann C. Pingree Director of PEM’s Phillips Library) leads a talented staff charged with preserving and sharing the library’s extensive collection of books, archives, ships’ journals, broadsides, photography and ephemera. Together they work to transform the highly-respected research library — with its rich and varied global collections — into an innovative and active intellectual hub that supports the overall mission of the museum. Lipcan has curated or co-curated a number of exhibitions, including several on the Salem Witch Trials. He holds a B.A. in Studio Art (Printmaking) from Allegheny College, an M.L.S. from Queens College–CUNY, and in 2017 was selected to participate in the Columbia Business School Executive Development Program at The Met. He is a member of the Grolier Club and the Art Libraries Society of North America.