Matt Heffernan is a Registrar in the Collections Department.

Emily Chapin oversees projects involving the Museum's Manuscripts and Ephemera holdings.

Dr. Derrick León Washington is a cultural anthropologist, dancer, and an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow at the Museum of the City of New York. His fieldwork in Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica, Spain, Mexico City, Washington D.C., and New York City has helped produce numerous conference papers and performance practice workshops. He curated the exhibition Rhythm & Power: Salsa in New York. He’s the co-editor of the upcoming CUNY Center of Puerto Rican Studies published book: Rhythm & Power: Performing Salsa in Puerto Rican and Latino Communities. Complimenting his scholastic work, he’s currently working on an interactive music and dance project that demonstrates how the artistic traditions of the Iberian Peninsula, pre-Columbian Americas and West Africa inspired several hybrid forms of popular music in the Western Hemisphere.