Joana Simões Henriques graduated in Cultural Communication from the Faculty of Human Sciences, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, having specialised at LUMSA – Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta, Rome – and has a Master’s degree in Studies and Management of Culture from ISCTE, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. She has worked in the departments of Curatorship and Collection Management, and Artistic Education, at the CAM – Modern Art Centre, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and has also served on the board of the Paulo Amaro Contemporary Art Gallery. Since 2010, she has been working with the EDP Foundation as an art curator, and where she is also responsible for education programming for museums. Since 2016, she has been working on the education and public programmes for the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (maat), and has had several essays published. She is a member of the Art, Museums and Digital Cultures cluster at the Art History Institute, FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and co-founder of the network MID – Museus para a Inclusão na Demência (Museums for Inclusion in Dementia), Portugal. Her research interests include museums, art, and culture as a tool for social and human development. She has organised projects and conferences on these topics.