About Me
What Museums Mean to Me
Ever since I was a shy, inquisitive child, museums have always felt like home to me. As a kid who dreamed of being an artist and potentially watched a little too much PBS Kids, museums encouraged my knack for creativity and learning. When I grew older, I grew to understand that not everyone feels like museums are places of solace. For too long museums have signaled to minoritized people that they are not welcome, or worse yet, are not fully human.
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While my soul finds peace in museums, I know that for many museums are places where their soul is in torment. In my work, I strive to make museums more soul-conscious and engage with people where they are. Some of the most powerful ways this has been accomplished is through community collaboration. While I aspire to be museum educator and evaluator, above all else I aspire to be a thoughtful collaborator. My mission, vision, and values below explain how I hope to do this.
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I believe museums are good for the soul.
​My mission is to help people discover themselves and their world through community-engaged audience research, meaningful public programs, and compelling exhibits.
My vision is to be a leader in doing soulful work through museums.
By "soulful work," I mean museum work that addresses one of our most fundamental needs as humans: the need to belong and to engage with something larger than ourselves.
