Huib Schippers

Huib Schippers is the director and curator of Smithsonian Folkways, the iconic non-profit record label of the Smithsonian. Schippers has a long and diverse history of engagement with music industry, performance, sustainability, education, training and research across various cultures, pursuing (partially overlapping) careers in performance, teaching, research, journalism, the record trade, arts policy, community engagement, curation and project management.