Selma Holo is Executive Director of USC Museums. She is Professor of Art History and Director of the International Museum Institute at USC. Holo’s first two books were on the relationship of art museums to evolving democracies in Spain and Mexico. They are Beyond the Prado : Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain and Oaxaca at the Crossroads: Managing Memory, Negotiating Change, both published by the Smithsonian Press and both translated into Spanish. Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values and Re-Mix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas, (with Mari-Tere Alvarez) argue respectively for establishing a set of qualitative values to assess museums’ success over the tyranny of “the gate”, and offer a new life-cycle theory for museums that allows for analysis of museums through a panarchic lens. The Fisher Museum which Holo has directed since 1981 has a 3000-piece collection and has concentrated in the last 25 years on collecting and on exhibitions from Latin America, Spain, as well as on Chicano and Mexican-American Art and regional contemporary art. Holo earned her Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara, her MA at Hunter College, CUNY, and her BA at Northwestern University. Fisher’s current exhibition: Facing Survival, by artist David Kassan, a collaboration with USC’s Shoah Foundation is receiving unprecedented attention.