Emily Kernan Rafferty was the first woman to serve as president of the

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, a position she held from 2005 to 2015 as part of a forty-year career at the museum. Currently the museum's president emerita, she also serves on the American Museum of Women's History Congressional Commission, and was a Board Chair of the

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from 2012 to 2016. Rafferty was born and raised in New York City and earned a bachelor's degree from

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in 1971. Rafferty began working at the Met in 1976 in the development department and as she rose through the ranks, became the first woman to hold a vice president's role at the museum.

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