Sonnet Takahisa, Director of Education at the Brooklyn Historical Society, consults with museums, cultural institutions and schools and has served on national and local task forces for museums, arts, Pre-K through higher education, government funding agencies and foundations. She initiated programs at Boston Children’s Museum, Seattle Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum and the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. At the Newark Museum, Takahisa led the development and implementation of their first creative aging programs as part of Aroha Philanthropies’ Seeding Vitality Arts US Initiative.