Sonia Coman-Ernstoff is the Audience Engagement Strategist at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art. Sonia has a B.A. from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in art history from Columbia University, where she wrote a dissertation on Japonisme, and wide-ranging experience in strategic planning. Sonia is the author of peer-reviewed papers and book chapters on the history of collecting and identity formation in the creative industries.