KANSAS CITY, MO.- After an extensive international search spanning many months, a new Director of Education and Interpretive Programs has been named by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Judith M. Koke comes to Kansas City from the Art Gallery of Ontario, where she has been Deputy Director of Education and Public Programming since 2007. “It was clear when she came to talk with us that she was the person for whom we had been searching,” said Julián Zugazagoitia, Director & CEO of the Nelson-Atkins. “She has enormous experience with education strategies and achieving museum visitor satisfaction. Judith was the unanimous choice.” While in Ontario, Koke developed and implemented a pan-institutional program of visitor research, leading a cultural change to support data-driven, visitor-centered decision making. Koke’s hiring signals a deep commitment on the part of the Nelson-Atkins to