Humorous Or Die proprietor Henry R. Muñoz III will donate $1 million {dollars} to ascertain a theater on the Smithsonian’s future Nationwide Museum of the American Latino.
Muñoz, who’s a well being care entrepreneur, introduced the information together with his husband Kyle Ferari-Munoz on Wednesday. The donation will go in the direction of establishing the SOMOS Theatre, a efficiency house on the proposed museum which is able to share its title with SOMOS US, the healthcare community serving New York and different areas that Muñoz helped co-found.
Muñoz at present serves because the board of trustees chair for the museum, and has performed a key position within the museum’s basis. He was appointed by Nancy Pelosi, U.S. Speaker of the Home, to function chair for the fee on the museum. The fee’s report in the end helped laws cross in December 2020 calling for the Smithsonian Establishment to ascertain the museum on the Nationwide Mall of Washington, D.C.
The 18-person board of trustees for the museum is at present working to accumulate artifacts, develop contents for the museum, coordinate fundraising and discover a everlasting location. Jorge Zamanillo serves because the director for the museum, whereas different board of trustees members apart from Muñoz embody actors Eva Longoria and Sofía Vergara, Coca-Cola North America president Alfredo Rivera, journalist Soledad O’Brien and musician Emilio Estefan.
Along with heading the board of trustees for the Museum of the American Latino, Muñoz at present serves on the latino advisory boards of the Smithsonian and the Kennedy Middle, and was the primary latino to serve on the nationwide board of the Smithsonian. He additionally serves on the board of the Cooper-Hewitt, and helped set up the Latino Heritage Fund of the Nationwide Parks Basis.
Muñoz not too long ago outilined his imaginative and prescient for Humorous Or Die underneath his possession when he was featured as a visitor final month on Selection podcast “Strictly Enterprise.”
“There’s so many elements to what it means to say, ‘That is my identification.’ I’m brown, I’m Latino and I’m homosexual. I’m a businessman and I’m an activist and I’m a philanthropist. I’ve many pursuits. And so I’m actually working very laborious with a bunch of people that have been at Humorous or Die for a very long time and a brand new era of expertise at Humorous or Die to open up that aperture,” he mentioned.
