Nora Trebbe Maroulis, currently Senior Director of Development and Communications at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, brings over 25 years of cultural non-profit management, fundraising, and marketing experience to the MASScreative Board.  Following graduate study in art history at Columbia University, Nora began her career at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she worked for six years on the front lines of the Museum’s $1 billion+ capital and endowment campaign, The Fund for the Met.  She went on to lead the Development and Membership efforts of the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art, growing its fundraising capacity and steering the effort to secure the largest gift—$12 million—in the organization’s history.  In 2002, Nora returned with her then young family to her native New England to oversee, as Director of Development and Marketing, the launch and positioning of the now internationally-renowned Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.  Her commitment to increasing the capacity and vitality of the cultural non-profit sector has continued over the last decade as a member of the executive leadership teams of deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and the Worcester Art Museum, and as an independent consultant assisting some of the state's leading arts organizations design, position, and launch major strategic initiatives and connect with transformative donors.