Carrie Rebora Barratt is an executive leader who has deployed her growth and resilience mindset into organizational culture in top cultural institutions. At LongHouse Reserve, the New York Botanical Garden, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, she has led through big transitions by championing the collective intelligence of staff and board at the intersection of art and nature, to welcome visitors to culture and build community.
Carrie is currently leading LongHouse Reserve through transition and turnaround following the passing of founder Jack Lenor Larsen. She is scoping strategic, programmatic, and organizational options for a beautiful sanctuary to sustain itself into the future.
Carrie was the first woman to hold the position of chief executive officer and president of New York Botanical Garden. In just two years, she developed a long-range art exhibition plan with vital educational programs and new digital content, drafted an agenda for increasing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, improved facilities, heightened the garden’s role in the botanical and horticultural dimensions of climate change and human wellness, and expanded the urban gardening program.
At The Met, she rose from summer intern to deputy director, immersing herself in the vital importance of museum work in our world. As the leader of 27 departments and over 400 staff—curatorial, conservation and scientific research, libraries, education, publications, and digital—she worked with commitment to the common purpose of shaping the collection, putting on superb exhibitions, and enriching visitor experience.