Evaluation & Research

Qualitative and survey-based evaluation of museum programs, staff well-being and workplace culture.

Qualifications:

• Board of Stakeholders member, Museums Moving Forward
• PhD, "Another World is Possible:" Liberatory Unionism in the U.S. Art Museum Labor Movement, The Ohio State University (2025)
• Graduate Research Assistant, Columbus Arts Ecosystems project, The Ohio State University (2024)
• "Art 4 Change" K-12 Partnership Program between MASS MoCA and the North Adams Public Schools and North Berkshire School Union (2015-2019)

Speaking

I am available to speak and facilitate group conversations on a range of museum topics related to my research in formal and informal settings, from keynote lectures to graduate and undergraduate course to Lunch & Learn-style conversations with practitioners.

Recent and upcoming engagements include: 

• "Reimagining Museum Work from the Ground Up" public lecture at the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi, USA (2026)
• "PASTA MoMA & the Art Workers' Coalition" guest speaker in the undergraduate Modern Art History course, Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
• "Redefining Ethical Authority: Labour" public panel alongside Gareth Hedges of Young Canada Works, for a Canadian Museums Association Virtual Symposium (2026)
• "Liberatory Unionism in the U.S. Art Museum Labor Movement" guest speaker in the graduate Museum Education Practicum at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA (2024)
• "Museums and Well-Being through Unionization" guest speaker in the undergraduate Museum Studies course at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA (2024)

Curriculum Development

For a range of ages (from PreK to lifelong learning) and contexts (from museums to the classroom). A particular focus on arts-based critical inquiry in support of social justice.

Select projects include: 

• Winter/ Spring 2023 Learning Guide featuring artists A.K. Burns, the Meditation Ocean Constellation with Hope Ginsburg, Sa'dia Rehman, and Anna Tsouhlarakis, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, with Dr. Julia Harth
• ARTEDUC 2800: Worlds of Indigenous Arts, The Ohio State University (2021): co-developed the
  curriculum for an undergraduate General Education course in collaboration with fellow students across the university and Indigenous artists and educators
• Wendy Red Star, Apsáalooke: Children of the Large-Beaked Bird Educator Guide, MASS MoCA (2020)
• Still I Rise Educator Guide, MASS MoCA (2019)
• ERRE: Them and Us/Ellos y Nosotros Educator Guide, MASS MoCA (2019)
• Wes Bruce, Cavernous: The Inner Life of Courage Educator Guide, MASS MoCA (2018)
• Nick Cave: Until Educator Guide, MASS MoCA (2017)

Qualifications:

• Exams and Assignments for Your Online Course, Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University (2022)
• Planning for Your Online Course, Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University (2022)
• Academic Integrity in Online Courses, Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University (2022)
• MediaSite for Instructors: Managing Video for Your Course, Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University (2022)
• REACH Suicide Prevention Training, The Ohio State University (2021)
• M.Ed., Arts in Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA (2013)

Professional Development

I am available to facilitate White anti-racist learning spaces centering the arts, in-person or remotely via Zoom.

Previous clients include: 

• Dallas Museum of Art docents, Dallas, TX (Nov. 2023); 
• Columbus Museum of Art docents, Columbus, OH (March - April 2023)
• Buxton School secondary educators, Williamstown, MA (March 2021)
• MASS MoCA Gallery Teachers (docents), North Adams, MA (2016 - 2020)

Qualifications:

• Planning Productive Conflict, Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University (2021)
• White Anti-Racist Learning Leadership Coaching, Dr. Ali Michael (2021)
• Cultural Equity Learning Community, Arts Connect International (2020)
• Cultural Competence, Multicultural BRIDGE (2019)
• Supporting Culturally Inclusive Pedagogy, Keonna Hendrick (2018)
• Dialogic Interpretation, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (2016)

Unionization & Contract Negotiation

I offer free advising and consultation on museum organizing, negotiating, and labor unions. I also offer fee-based consultation and coaching to management in support of developing data- and trust-based labor relations and worker-friendly employment policies.

You can watch me in a recording of a Museum Unions Organizing Workshop Panel for the [Collective Liberations]: Disrupt, Dismantle, Manifest Unconference (2022). 

Qualifications: 

• Volunteer Organizing Coach, MATCH (Mitglieder Aktivierung: Training for Change), ver.di trade union, Berlin (2025 - present)
• Power Up! Training, Organizing for Power (2025)
• PhD, "Another World is Possible:" Liberatory Unionism in the U.S. Art Museum Labor Movement, The Ohio State University (2025)
• Certificate in Labor Studies, Cornell University School for Industrial and Labor Relations (2025)
• Facilitator, Museums Moving Forward Study Group: Contracts & Equity (2024-present) 
• Researcher, Museums Moving Forward Art Museum Unions Index (2023-2024)
• Organizing committee member, MASS MoCA Union (UAW Local 2110)