Kathleen E. Ash-Milby, Navajo, is a curator of contemporary Native American art. She is currently the curator and co-director of the American Indian Community House (AICH) Gallery in New York City and also works on independent projects with various institutions. She earned her Master of Arts from the University of New Mexico in Native American art history in 1994 and joined the curatorial department of the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution in 1993 where she worked until 1999. She assisted with acquisitions and exhibition development at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning, New York and was a New York State Council on the Arts panelist. Ash-Milby is the Vice President of the Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA) and has served on the board since 1997.