Jen Mergel

Jen Mergel is a nationally respected contemporary art curator and cultural leader dedicated to her hometown. She has organized over 50 exhibitions in professional roles at Harvard, the Addison Gallery, the ICA Boston, the MFA Boston, and most recently for the Emerald Necklace Conservancy where she now serves as Director of Experience and Cultural Partnerships. In this role she builds the Conservancy’s capacity to invite more inclusive and impactful park experiences through partnerships with history-keepers, change-agents and thought-leaders in public-making through art, design and culture. She holds degrees from Harvard University and Bard College, is Fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership and the Culture of Health Leadership Institute for Racial Healing, and in 2022 accepted the Charles Eliot Conservationist of the Year Award on behalf of the coalition that presented Olmsted Now: Greater Boston's Olmsted Bicentennial.