NEWS

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Reinventing the Museum: Relevance, Inclusion and Global Responsibilities released in May 2023 by Rowman & Littlefield for American Alliance of Museums. 30% Discount Code off list price: RLFANDF30

AAM’S MUSEUM MAGAZINE ARTICLE

The Resilience Playbook Team authored “Inside Out, Outside In: A resilience model for museums offers strategies to address challenging realities“ article in AAM’s May/June 2022 Museum magazine.

PAST SELECT SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Museums and Change: Reinventing the Museum: The Imperative to Reimagine Museums, February 2024

• Discussion with Avi Decter on recent shifts in the museum field. View Online Session Passcode: jD.2Qp?5

AASLH Online Conference, October 2021

• Presenter: The Resilient Museum:  Strategies to Address Challenging Realities session. Co-presenters: Anne Ackerson, Consultant, Dina Bailey, Principal, Mountain Top Vision, Ben Garcia, Deputy Executive Director, Ohio History Connection, Melanie Adams, Director, Anacostia Community Museum

American Association of Museums Conference, June 2021

• Presenter: Resilience for Museums: Strategies to Address Challenging Realities session explored strategies for museum leaders to achieve greater relevance and inclusion in the lives of diverse publics, balancing capacity and potential to find the right path. Co-presenters: Anne Ackerson, Consultant, Dina Bailey, Principal, Mountain Top Vision, Ben Garcia, Deputy Executive Director, Ohio History Connection, Melanie Adams, Director, Anacostia Community Museum

The Resilience Playbook Webinar, January 2021

• The Resilience Playbook Team hosted a webinar about THE RESILIENCE PLAYBOOK in 2021. The Team provided an introduction to the philosophy and approach that creates the foundation to THE PLAYBOOK’s 5 Resilience Goals and 20 Plays  and shared their insights about why organizational resiliency is so important right now for long-term sustainability. Webinar Recording

Guest Speaker

• Guest speaker to Graduate Museum Studies Classes at Seton Hall University, San Francisco State University, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, Bank Street College, New York, George Washington University & AAMG, 2020-2021.

ReMuseum 2020: Resiliency Now, California Association of Museums, October 2020

• In conversation with Melanie Adams, Director, Anacostia Community Museum, and Micah Parzen, CEO, San Diego Museum of Us to discuss the challenges that the museum field is currently facing and how our field can move forward.