Carol Tang joined the Museum in October 2024 and directs its Exhibitions, Education, Public Programs, and Global Business Development divisions. She was previously executive director of the Children’s Creativity Museum (CCM) in San Francisco. During her decade of leadership, CCM increased attendance, expanded community partnerships, and earned a 2023 award from the American Alliance of Museums for advancing diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion.

Before leading CCM, Tang was the Senior Science Educator at the California Academy of Sciences (Cal Academy), where she directed educational programs and later oversaw development of its natural history exhibitions, planetarium, and aquarium for its 2008 reopening. She also directed the Coalition for Science After School and was a Program Officer at the S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation. She earned a B.A. in paleontology from UC Berkeley and an M.A. and Ph.D. in geology from USC. She was a professor at Arizona State University with grants