Germonique R. Ulmer is an accomplished leader with over two decades of experience in building impact and engagement strategies and leading teams at the intersection of arts, culture, and historic preservation with a lens towards improving the quality of life for underserved communities. Her career has spanned working within national nonprofits, arts organizations, and local politics, and she is currently providing a range of strategic planning, engagement, and partnership support to purpose-driven organizations.

Germonique served as the Managing Director for Social Impact at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, one of the country’s most ambitious museum projects, founded by the filmmaker and his wife. In this leadership role, she established strategic community partnerships and outreach programs that strengthened engagement with city, county, and state entities, and developed policies and programs to ensure the museum’s accessibility to a broad range of visitors upon its opening.

Previously, as Vice President of Public Affairs at the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Germonique reimagined the organization’s approach to media outreach and was instrumental in launching the nation’s largest program effort to preserve and protect African American historic sites, guiding strategic communications and brand messaging for the initiative. She maintains her commitment to this work as a member of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund’s National Advisory Council.

Her extensive background includes work in community organizing, focused on media relations, coalition building and message development. She has also served as a political appointee at the highest level of local government as the deputy press secretary for the former Mayor of the District of Columbia. She previously served as a Commissioner on the five-member Board of Tourism for the City of Los Angeles under its former Mayor, which oversees the tourism department and convention center for one of the largest tourism markets in the country.

Germonique is also a media trainer, a university guest lecturer, and is a founding board member of a public charter high school for journalism and media arts in Washington, DC. Germonique holds a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism and Film from the University of Georgia and an M.A. in Journalism and Public Affairs from American University.

She, along with her husband Kwame, are parents to two children and are proud supporters of HBCU education, endowing a scholarship at our nation’s oldest Black degree-granting university. Germonique is a retired competitive amateur tennis player and enjoys traveling for great food and incredible art.