Mimi was Director of the Seattle Art Museum for 15 years starting in 1994 and is now Director Emerita. She spent 19 years at Yale University Art Gallery (1975-1994) as curator of Asian art and then as Director. She was a fellow of the Yale Corporation and Founder and Chairman of the Dunhuang Foundation. She is currently Chairman of the Blakemore Foundation, on the board of Heritage University and Copper Canyon Press, and Trustee Emerita of the Gates Cambridge Scholars Trust at Cambridge University, UK. She formerly chaired the National Indemnity Program at the National Endowment for the Arts and served on the Getty Leadership Institute Advisory Committee. As a specialist in the history of Chinese art, Mimi has focused on the magnificent Buddhist cave temples of Dunhuang in northwest China since her retirement as a museum director.