Sabrina Lynn Motley

{{Short description|Director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival}}

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Sabrina Lynn Motley is the director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival at the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage. She was formerly senior director of programs and exhibitions at Asia Society Texas Center.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/sabrina-lynn-motley-overseeing-the-smithsonian-folklife-festival/2014/06/24/941ded68-fba3-11e3-8176-f2c941cf35f1_story.html|title=Sabrina Lynn Motley: Overseeing the Smithsonian Folklife Festival|date=2014-06-24|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=2018-06-30|language=en-US|issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite news|url=https://folklife.si.edu/news-and-events/sabrina-lynn-motley-named-director-of-the-smithsonian-folklife-festival|title=Sabrina Lynn Motley Named Director of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival|work=Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage|access-date=2018-06-30|language=en-US}}

Life

Motley studied World Arts & Culture, African studies and anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She previously worked at the Japanese American National Museum, the Vesper Society, Art Center College of Design and Otis Institute for Art and Design.[https://www.weforum.org/people/sabrina-lynn-motley World Economic Forum: Sabrina Lynn Motley]

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