Independent Women is delighted to welcome Beth Herman as a visiting fellow. Beth has a passion for “art for art’s sake,” and her goal is to explore how parents, educators, and policy leaders can move American arts and art history education in a new, creative direction, at the grade school level and beyond. Beth’s experience will be essential to Independent Women’s mission.
Welcome, Beth!
Meet Beth below.
Beth Herman is an essayist and frequent contributor as art and cultural critic to the online site The Federalist. Her essays have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Legal Times, The Washington Times, Bella, and on NPR.
She has been a school docent at The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C since 2016, and is deeply committed to finding ways to restore traditional American values to art and art history education for children in grades K-12.
Beth is also CFO of Freedom’s Forge Solutions LLC, a defense technology-related consulting firm she and her husband, the best-selling author and historian Arthur Herman, founded in 2023.
She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Classical Education at the University of Dallas. In addition, she holds degrees from the Fashion Institute of Technology (A.A. 1983) and a Magna Cum Laude degree in English from Hunter College (B.A. 1988), both in New York City. Beth also gained extensive sales experience in the legal staffing business in Washington D.C. in the 1990s. At the same time, she authored “The Human Touch,” a popular advice column published in Legal Times, In the early 2000s, she embraced her artistic side, as teddy bear portraitist and children’s book author.
When not at her writing desk, Beth can be found running, reading, or strength training.