A lifelong New Yorker, Jodi Shapiro started working at the New York Transit Museum Archive in May of 2014, was promoted to Associate Curator in 2016, and became Curator in June 2021. She’s curated numerous shows covering all aspects of New York’s nearly 200-year-old public transit system. She can frequently be seen giving gallery talks, showing people some of the treasures in the Museum’s vast collection, or riding on one of the Museum’s vintage trains. Before she joined the Transit Museum family, Jodi had many jobs: The most significant of these was working as an archivist for several artists’ estates, including a number of world-renown photographers. She holds a Master’s in Library Science with a concentration in Archival Processing and Description, has way too many cameras, and fears her enormous LP record collection will be the death of her some day. Photo credit: Rebecca Pronsky.
