About Us: Executive Director - Carla Precht
Founding Executive Director Carla Precht joined the Bronx Children’s Museum in January 2010. An innovative manager of not-for-profit programs for children and families throughout the New York area, she knows and loves the Bronx.
Her experience includes a recent stint as the founding Executive Director of the first Horizons academic enrichment program for low-income children at Brooklyn Friends School. For 10 years Ms. Precht served as Executive Director of Riverdale Neighborhood House in the northwest Bronx where she extended the reach of the agency, revamped its development program and revitalized its services for teens, seniors, families and young children.
She spent five years as Deputy Director and then Acting Executive Director of Youth Action Program in East Harlem, was a program officer for one of the city’s leading literacy-focused after school program foundations, the Robert Bowne Foundation, and served for nine years as Community Service Director for the Brooklyn Friends School.
Ms. Precht has trained and provided technical assistance to foundations and countless community-based organizations and after school and day care providers through Lutheran Medical Center, Child Care Inc, and Interface.
She began her career as an art teacher at Union Settlement House in East Harlem. Ms. Precht recently completed co-producing and co-directing an educational documentary film about body image called Beauty Mark (www.beautymarkmovie.com).
