Recent Posts by Andrew Plumley
Meeting the Moment
Category:
Museum Magazine
With its forthcoming report, Excellence in DEAI, AAM seeks to help museums achieve excellence in diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion. This article originally appeared in the …
Looking Within: AAM’s Internal DEAI Work
Category:
Alliance Blog
Most of you reading this probably know about Facing Change, AAM’s multi-year initiative to increase the diversity of museum boards and ultimately create more diverse, equitable, accessible, …
What Juneteenth Means This Year
Category:
Alliance Blog
On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger of the Union Army strolled into Galveston, Texas, to announce that the last of the enslaved people in the Confederacy were free from the shackles of …
For Museum Leaders Who Want to Do Better
Category:
Alliance Blog
In the midst of a pandemic that has brought an incredible amount of pain and suffering to so many of us, I know there’s a lot on your plate as a leader, and you are being pulled in multiple …
Museums and Equity in Times of Crisis
Category:
Alliance Blog
Just weeks ago, many of us in the museum field were in our offices, in the halls of our institutions, outside on our grounds, or observing nature at our zoos or aquariums. Now we are in a …