Henry Timms

Henry Timms is Deputy Executive Director of 92Y. In his role he oversees strategic direction innovation and growth of the world-class cultural and community center.Since arriving in 2008 Henry has created and produced many major initiatives that leverage technology to broaden the impact of 92Y.

These include the annual Social Good Summit in partnership with Mashable and the UN Foundation which has opened up the UN Week conversation to over 120000 across the world; Rio+ Social which takes the Social Good Summit to Brazil; the Campaign for the American Conversation in partnership with Harvard Kennedy School and others which promotes civil dialogue in innovative ways; a week-long live broadcast of MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show; the Conference of Nobel Laureates in partnership with Skype; the State of Style Summit with Stylecaster.com and a daylong celebration of Elie Wiesel in honor of his 80th birthday.Henry oversees a unique breadth of programming including 92Y’s legendary talks series (recent guests have included Bono Jane Goodall President Clinton General Petraeus Tom Cruise Prime Minister Netanyahu and Bill Gates) the Harkness Dance Center known as “the home of modern dance” the Unterberg Poetry Center which Ian McEwan called “the best place to give a reading on the planet” the prestigious Tisch Center for the Arts the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life the Simon Center for Adult Life the renowned 92Y Camps and 92YTribeca a downtown hub for a new generation of audience-members.

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