“‘Education at its best—this profound human transaction called teaching and learning—is not just about getting information or getting a job. Education is about healing and wholeness. It is about empowerment, liberation, transcendence, about renewing the vitality of life. It is about finding and claiming ourselves and our place in the world.’ Since our place in…

            I began working with my mentor, Gretchen Bender, this past spring as a research assistant in the development of the class for which I am now a teaching assistant, HAA 1025: Museums: Society and Inclusion?. As we worked to refine the course, we had no idea that it would be taught remotely in a…

This semester I will be working with Gretchen Bender and CJ Dawson in the course HAA 0125 Museums: Society and Inclusion? to engage and work with students in the questioning of museums and their role in our communities today. My CUTF project is centered on the theme of public space in museums. Especially during this…