Carrie Villar is the John & Neville Bryan Associate Director of Museum Collections at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. In this role, she oversees the collections management across the Trust’s portfolio of historic sites and staffs the Collections Committee that makes decisions regarding deaccessioning and the use of those funds for direct care.

Prior to that, Carrie served as Senior Curator at The History Factory in Washington, DC, where she served as the creative lead on teams that worked with a diverse range of clients. Previously, Carrie served as the Collections and Research Director at the Baltimore Museum of Industry.

Carrie has a M.A. in History with a Museum Studies Certificate from the University of Delaware, where she received a Hagley Fellowship in the History of Technology and Industrialization and a Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate from Georgetown University.