Diana Cohen Altman
Executive Director
Diana Cohen Altman is a longtime Washington, D.C.-area cultural professional. As an exhibition writer at the Smithsonian Institution, she developed an expertise in traveling exhibitions. While at the Smithsonian, she received an Educational Outreach grant to give talks on her publishing activities as editor of the National Association for Museum Exhibition magazine. She also received an Artist-at-Work award for her original textile design. As director of the B’nai B’rith Klutznick Museum and Lax Archive, she founded the B’nai B’rith Center for Jewish Culture.
Ms. Altman has served on numerous boards, including the National Association for Museum Exhibition, the Women in Museums Network, the Museum Education Roundtable, and the Art. Deco Society of Greater Washington. She has written for numerous publications, including Moment, Curator, and Museum News magazines. Ms. Altman has lived in Bermuda, Greece, Bangladesh, Ecuador, and Sweden, and has traveled extensively. She holds a B.A. in anthropology from Vassar College. In her free time, Ms. Altman volunteers in public schools in her community in the Washington, D.C., area, and enjoys traveling with her husband and two sons.
Kelsey King
Program Officer, Cultural Affairs
Kelsey King graduated from the George Washington University with a B.A. in art history. Before joining the Karabakh Foundation staff, Kelsey worked for several art organizations in D.C. While working at the Aaron Gallery, the Pink Line Project, and Bettmann Dances, Kelsey developed expertise in cultural event planning, marketing and publicity, and project management. She spent the summer of 2011 serving as the exhibit coordinator for a pending online exhibit at the Karabakh Foundation before joining the staff full-time.
With a lifelong interest in art and culture, she has traveled extensively across North America, Europe, and Africa. In her free time, Kelsey enjoys distance running and exploring D.C.’s many artistic and culinary treasures.
Cultural Ambassadors
Delia Akhmedova
Elchin Asif Abdullayev
Sardar Azari
Maya Davis
Anar Garibov
Rebecca Gilbert
Imamyar Hasanov
Dilshad Horowitz
Ricardo Infante
Ikram Jalil
Cheryl Kempler
Patrick Kepley
Galib Mammadov
Shafag Mehraliyeva
Bedir Memmedli
Rena Memmedli
Baba Mikhailov
Sema Muslu
Shahla Naghiyeva
Gunel Guliyeva
Yavar Rzayev
Hasan Sarbakhshian
Shahin Shikhaliyev
Zanyasan Tanantpapat
Jeffrey Werbock
Lloyd Wolf
Cort Woolfork
Kenneth Victor Young