New women leaders are taking the helm at two West Marin institutions—CLAM and the Bolinas Museum—following a decade of growth. 

The 40-year-old Bolinas Museum hired Louisa Gloger as its new executive director in January, after searching for an experienced nonprofit manager to administer fundraising, operations, staff development, exhibition planning and public relations, and to oversee the roughly $400,000 budget. 

Ms. Gloger, who grew up in Bolinas immersed in art, is overlapping with outgoing director Jennifer Gately, who has held the position since 2012. 

“The history of leadership at [the museum] is the story of really strong women leaders, like Jennifer Gately,” Ms. Gloger said.

Ms. Gloger’s background includes art, nonprofit management and fundraising. As a child, she observed her artist mother at work and made frequent visits to the DeYoung Museum, where her mother was a docent. After earning an art degree at Williams College, she worked at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and later the Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco. 

She was employed by an art advisory company in Los Angeles and started her own fine art consulting business, when a breast cancer diagnosis inspired her to found a cancer awareness nonprofit, which she ran for five years. Her mother had battled the same form of breast cancer, and as a survivor, she became interested in helping others. She said her new position at the museum “feels very full circle. This was the place my mom loved the most, and I’m doing the thing my mom loved the most.”

Ms. Gloger plans to expand programming, featuring local artists alongside exhibitions from artistic communities outside West Marin audiences. “There’s a lens there for diversity, equity and inclusion,” she said. “For me that means bringing in the work of artists who are not living here but have a way of expanding our understanding.”

She is also passionate about the overlap between art and education within a museum context, and she imagines fourth-grade students from West Marin schools exploring the history galleries in tandem with their studies of California history. 

In Point Reyes Station, the Community Land Trust Association of West Marin welcomed two new leaders this month: Pam Dorr, who will serve as executive director, and Laura Giacomini, the communications and development director. 

The nonprofit is looking at significant growth with the Coast Guard development, a new age-in-place program and increased community outreach and education. “We had a very clear idea of what we were looking for in terms of leadership,” said Maureen Cornelia, CLAM’s board president. “We have a very experienced staff, but we also needed more depth in terms of housing and the development side of housing. We did a very extensive search, and we’re just thrilled to have Laura and Pam joining the team.”

Ms. Dorr brings significant experience in developing and overseeing affordable housing. Most recently, she served as the director of affordable housing for a Menlo Park-based organization, Soup. Previously she served simultaneously as executive director at two nonprofits in Greensboro, Ala. “I really like helping families become homeowners,” she said.

CLAM is hoping to help create more accessory dwelling units, split lots and provide starter homes. “We’re in a perfect position to start to move quickly on properties,” Ms. Dorr said. 

Laura Giacomini has worked for over 20 years directing development and communications in the field of affordable housing. She worked with the CERES Project in Sonoma County and has led the Marin Organizing Committee’s Immigration & Renter Protection and Affordable Housing teams since 2014. “I feel really passionate about affordable housing,” she said. “I was delighted this opportunity came and I’m really happy to become part of the team.”