In 1992 she served as the visual arts curator for The American Center, working in New York and Paris. While there, she coordinated exhibitions including "Off the Shelf/Off the Wall: The Artist's Book After 1960" (1996); "Micromégas" with Jon Kessler (1995); "Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, War and Memory" (1995); "Stations" by Bill Viola (1995) and Nam June Paik, David and Marat (1994). After leaving the American Center, she worked as a curatorial associate at the Centre Georges Pompidou, and as the curator for the Busan International Arts Festival in Busan, Korea. In 1996, Boas returned to San Francisco, and was appointed public programs curator at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, where she built new public programs, including panels, symposia, Internet sites, artist conversations and museum studies classes for adult audiences. Between 2001 and 2010, she curated exhibits at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, including a traveling Sophie Calle exhibition, and New Langton Arts. Boas additionally served as the curator and acting director of the San Francisco Museum of Craft and Folk Art (2007-2012), curating shows on Sister Corita Kent, Clare Rojas, and Harrell Fletcher. From 2001-2004, she was the executive director and chief curator of the Sonoma County Museum (2001-2004), where she curated the exhibit of "James Turrell: Light and Land." In November 2014, she was selected to curate and organize the inaugural exhibit for Galerie Maeght's San Francisco opening. From 2004 through 2008, Boas was a member of the founding faculty of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts. In addition to developing thesis exhibition classes and program content, commissions and catalogs, she served as a thesis advisor. During 2005-2009, she wrote on art and trend-spotting for the home for Condé Nast's style magazine "Domino." She was an early writer for "Dwell" and contributes to "The Believer" and "The Huffington Post." And in 2017 she authored the Facebook Artist in Residence book on the recent history of Art and Tech in the Bay Area for the 5th anniversary of Facebook's artist in residency program. Boas' interest in the Mission School was amplified while she was at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the museum exhibited several of the artists associated with the movement in the 1997 show "Bay Area Now: A Regional Survey of Contemporary Art."