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Pier Penic is a museum program curator, editor, education specialist, collections specialist, arts management leader, communications professional, creative consultant, and experienced director with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry of one of the world’s leading museums dedicated to African American history and Africa’s arts and culture. Pier Penic has had over 24 years of experience as an educator, reading specialist and program director for the Fairfax County Public Library in Virginia. She has worked as a professional development project manager with the Library of Congress in their African and Middle Eastern Division. She is also the founder and director of Culture at Home, an academic and support group for African American homeschooling families and has worked as an education consultant for the National Park Service for several years. She has worked with and coordinated youth education programs in Creole languages, history, and visual art for the Haitian Embassy in Washington, D.C. She has worked with numerous authors and both performance and visual artists throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. She has served as an art specialist and program director for students in Nigeria enrolled in CartoonAFRICA SDGs ArtivismWritivism.

Pier has taught classes at the National Museum of African Art and other Smithsonian Museums in African literature, film, music, art history, visual art, mixed media, environmental science, math, and creative writing. She has created and coordinated summer writing workshops for teens at four Smithsonian affiliated museums and several other museums and universities in the Washington, D.C. area. She has also served as a publication consultant for the Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum’s Women’s Environmental Leadership Project. She managed the Coca Cola–funded project Gen Z Speaks: A Right to the City Youth Project which involved working with teens to curate the Smithsonian exhibit Gen Z Speaks: A Right to the City.

Pier Penic has served as the K-12 Education Specialist for the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.

She received her BA in literature and communications from Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, MA and she did her graduate work in world literature at American University in Washington, D.C.

She resides in Alexandria, VA with her family.