Museum + Cultural Heritage Consulting

Institutions in society are responding to the need for greater equity and belonging.

Informed by 20 years of experience and research, I help museums and cultural heritage organizations navigate the past and activate future possibilities rooted in inclusive transformation*.

Informed by 20 years of experience and research, I help museums and cultural heritage organizations navigate the past and activate future possibilities rooted in inclusive transformation*.

Examples of past and current projects include:

Facilitation

ºProject Facilitator; Institutional Genealogy Facilitator, The Mutter Museum. (2023-present)

ºWorkshop Facilitator; Future Visioning: A Collaborative Inquiry Activation with The Incluseum. Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History. Atlanta, GA., With P. Moore & A. Wittman. (April 2023)

ºCo-Director; Dutch Designs: Innovation in Libraries, Museums, and Information Services in the Netherlands; Study abroad program in the Netherlands via the University of Washington Information School. (Summer 2017, 2018, 2019).

ºCo-Founder and Co-Director, The Incluseum. (2012-present).

Advising

ºProject Advisor; Building Supports Towards A Useful, Usable, and In-Use Framework of Professional Competencies in the Informal STEM Learning Field; Association of Science and Technology Centers. (2023-present).

ºExternal Reviewer; Excellence in DEAI: Core Documents Requirements; The American Alliance of Museums. (2024).

ºExhibition text review and editing. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. (2019)

ºFounding Project Advisor, MASS Action / Museums as Site for Social Action. (2015 - present)

ºCommunity Advisory Committee Member, The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. 

Exhibition: Uprooted and Invisible: Seeing Asian American Homelessness. (2012 - 2013)

Research

+ Writing

ºResearcher; Museums Moving Forward. (2024-present)

ºResearcher & Author: Addressing Harmful Content in Collections. The Oregon Heritage Commission. (2024)

ºCo-Author; Transforming Inclusion in

Museums: The Power of

Collaborative Inquiry. Lanham,

Maryland: Rowman and

Littlefield. With

P. Moore & A. Wittman. (2022)

ºCo-Author; (Re)Frame: The Case for New Language in the 21st Century Museum. Exhibition (36)1, 56-63. With M. Middleton and P. Moore. (2016)

ºAuthor; Inclusion in Museums: A Matter of Social Justice. Museums, Management, and Curatorship 31(5), 474-490. (2016)

*Along with Aletheia Wittman, I understand inclusive transformation as “an ongoing process of opening up to new ways of being and doing that are grounded in collaborative inquiry, social justice, self-reflection on institutional legacies, and care-centered values” in view of co-creating lasting structural changes (see more at aletheiawittman.com)