Nina Simon is an American exhibition curator, writer, educator, and museum director. She founded the non-profit organization OF/BY/FOR ALL and previously served as executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History from 2012 until June 2019. Simon is the author of three books. Her first two works, The Participatory Museum and The Art of Relevance, focus on museum practice and cultural engagement. In 2023, she published her first novel, Mother-Daughter Murder Night, which became a New York Times bestseller and was selected for Reese Witherspoon's Book Club.