NEW YORK, NY.- The Morgan Library & Museum announced the election of three new members to its board of trustees. Mark Jenkins will join as a member of the board, while Brook Berlind and Susan Jaffe Tane will join as life trustees.

G. Scott Clemons and Robert K. Steel, Co-Presidents of the Board, stated, “On behalf of the trustees, we are pleased to welcome these three outstanding individuals to the Morgan’s board. Their commitment to cultural enrichment and scholarship will be an invaluable asset as we continue to preserve, celebrate, and expand the institution’s legacy for future generations.”


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Colin B. Bailey, Katharine J. Rayner Director, added, “I look forward to welcoming these new trustees and working with them to further the Morgan’s mission and to fulfill our commitment to facilitating close, meaningful encounters with great works of human achievement. Their engagement and enthusiasm for the Morgan’s collections and programs position us well for the years ahead.”

Mark Jenkins

Mark Jenkins is a Managing Director and Head of Global Credit at Carlyle, one of the world’s largest and most diversified global investment firms. He is also a member of Carlyle's Leadership Committee.


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Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Jenkins was a Senior Managing Director at CPPIB and was responsible for leading CPPIB’s Global Private Investment group. Earlier in his career, he served as Managing Director, Co-Head of Leveraged Finance Origination and Execution for Barclays Capital in New York and worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. in senior positions within the Fixed Income and Financing groups in New York. Mr. Jenkins is a member of the Morgan’s Director’s Roundtable.

Brook Berlind

Brook Berlind is Trustee and President of the Berlind Foundation, which supports arts and cultural organizations in the greater New York City area. She is a distinguished collector of twentieth century art and is an avid supporter of the theater in NYC. She is also a trustee at the World Monuments Fund.

Ms. Berlind is a member of the Morgan’s Director’s Roundtable and the Conservation Visiting Committee. She donated to the museum’s Centennial Campaign last year.

Susan Jaffe Tane

Susan Jaffe Tane is one of the foremost collectors of Edgar Allan Poe books, manuscripts, and artifacts. Her other literary interests include Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Robert Frost, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. She has been listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who of American Women, and Personalities of America. She currently serves on the Council of the Grolier Club, as well as the boards of Rare Book School, the Poe Museum, the Wolfsonian— Florida International University Museum, and the Chairman’s Council of the British Library.

She served as executive producer of the 2017 PBS documentary “Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive.” In 2022, she funded the Susan Tane Prize for Student Book Collectors at the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America and donated nearly 60 items from her collection to the Poe Museum. Ms. Tane has also established the Tane Research Library at the Walt Whitman Initiative, the Tane Whitman Scholarship, and the Edgar Allan Poe Travel Scholarship for the Poe Studies Association. She also is a sponsor of the Mark Twain Project Online.

Ms. Tane is a member of the Morgan’s Director’s Roundtable. She is also a member of the Literary and Historical Manuscripts Visiting Committee, and she recently donated an important selection of literary manuscripts, including an autograph manuscript of Walt

Whitman’s "Democracy,” as well as a daguerreotype of Edgar Allan Poe, in honor of the Morgan’s centennial.