Dwandalyn R. Reece is Curator of Music and Performing Arts at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Why you should listen
Dwandalyn R. Reece curated the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture's (NMAAHC) permanent exhibition, Musical Crossroads. Reece has collaborated with other Smithsonian Institute units on such programs as the NMAAHC Grand Opening Festival, Freedom Sounds: A Community Celebration and the Folklife Festival program and Rhythm and Blues: Tell it Like It Is.
She is chair of the Smithsonian Institute pan-institutional group Smithsonian Music and works on the NMAAHC and Smithsonian Folkways collaboration, The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop and Rap, and serves as co-curator of the Smithsonian Year of Music.
