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Virginia Mecklenburg Editor & Author

Lonnie G. Bunch III is the 14th Secretary of the Smithsonian, a position he assumed in June 2019. Previously, Bunch was the founding director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Virginia Mecklenburg is senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.