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Children’s Museum president and CEO Shannon Venable will officially step down next month, and Danielle Ripperton will join the organization as president and CEO Dec. 2. Venable will remain with the organization throughout December to assist in the transition.
Venable’s retirement caps a career that includes more than three decades at Dominion Energy, where she was a vice president. Since joining the Children’s Museum in 2016, she has worked to foster community partnerships in support of early learning programs.
Ripperton was most recently director of development at the Peter Paul Development Center, where she oversaw an increase in fundraising that helped expand the number of Peter Paul locations and provide more programming. Earlier in her career, she also served as Interim executive director and director of development and marketing for the Children’s Museum of Evansville in Indiana. She has a Master of Arts in Arts Administration from Indiana University and is a Certified Fund Raising Executive. She serves on the Boards of the Central Virginia Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals where she is current president, and the University of Richmond Institute on Philanthropy Advisory Board, a program in which she is also an adjunct instructor.
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