Presentations & Talks
Formal Presentations
Breaking Out of the Four Walls: How Museums are Using Digital Strategy to Engage Wider Audiences
Emerging Arts Leaders Symposium 2019, American University, Washington, DC
Co-panelists: Sara Snyder, Chief, External Affairs & Digital Strategies, SAAM & Renwick Gallery; Marisa Beahm Klein, Creative Content Manager, US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Moderated by Allison Peck, Director of External Affairs and Partnerships, Smithsonian Arts & Industries Building
Can a Hashtag Fix Gender Inequality? Three Museums Push the Conversation
MCN Annual Conference 2018, Denver, CO
Co-presenters: Emily Haight, National Museum of Women in the Arts; Jessica Johnson, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Kat Harding, North Carolina Museum of Art
Expansive Techniques: Novel Approaches To Maximizing Civic Impact
Council on American Jewish Museums Annual Conference 2018, Washington, DC.
Co-presenters: Aaron Goldblatt Metcalfe Architecture and Design; Michael Haley Goldman, US Holocaust Memorial Museum; Johanna Mendelson Forman, American University; and Liz Neely, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum. Session Chair: Lisa Sasaki, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center
#DayofFacts: Museums Push Back on Alternative Facts One Tweet at a Time
MCN Annual Conference 2017, Pittsburgh, PA
Co-presenter: Caitlin Kearny, Field Museum
Lock it Down! Securing Your Museum in a Hacker’s World (Moderator)
MCN Annual Conference 2017, Pittsburgh, PA
Co-presenters: Adam Gegg, St. Louis Art Museum; Angie Judge, Dexibit; James Vitale, L.A. County Museum of Art; Jeff Williams, Hammer Museum
#DayofFacts: Taking a Stand to Share Our Truths
MuseumNext 2017, Portland, OR
Co-presenters: Alli Hartley, Museum Educator & Consultant
Can You Name #5WomenArtists? A Viral Campaign for Women’s History Month
MCN Annual Conference, 2016, New Orleans, LA
Co-presenter: Emily Haight, National Museum of Women in the Arts
Informal Presentations
Webinar: Supporting Communities with Digital Programs during Coronavirus
2020
Invited to speak on a webinar hosted by Cuseum about developing digital projects during COVID-19-related building closures. Presented with Terri Freeman, President of the National Civil Rights Museum.
Museums and Social Media
2019
Presentation given to the "Museums and Social Media" class, part of the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University on the day-to-day work of managing social media in a museum and how to execute social campaigns.
Webinar: Create Stronger Relationships with Your Visitors
2018
Invited to speak on a Guide by Cell-hosted webinar about creating mobile gallery tours. Slides and some audio available online.
Social Media for Community Engagement
2018
Presentation given to the "Museums and Community Engagement" class, part of the Museum Studies Program at George Washington University on leveraging social media for community engagement and activism.
How to Be Scrappy with Digital: In your life and in your job
Given in 2017 and 2018
Presentation given to students of Georgetown University’s Museums & New Media graduate course on finding work in the museum field and managing digital engagement on a budget.
Musete.ch Interview
2017
Interviewed by JHU Museums Studies student about collaboration and working with small budgets for museum digital projects. Audio interview published on musete.ch project website.
Other Projects
MCN 50 Voices
In honor of the 50th anniversary of MCN (the Museum Computer Network) I worked with two colleagues to facilitate interviews between participants in the MCN community about careers, the museum technology field, key skills and the future of #musetech. Community members interviewed each other and submitted written posts, audio, or video for the MCN Blog. The project was adapted into an interactive digital experience installed onsite at the conference.
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