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Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
Shining a Light on the Past and the Future: Interview with Dr. Donald Suggs
“Institutions play a role in shining a light on the past and the future. They challenge us and give us a deep understanding of how we came to be; they also help us see what’s important to …
Reflections on AAM’s Board Diversity Training
Laura Lott is the President and CEO of the American Alliance of Museums. As I have spoken and blogged about for the past year, I learned A LOT in just a few days at the 2016 Forum on …
Wordless Wednesday: Bodies Bending Sound
@guggenheim @dorrancedance @nytimes #acoustics #dance Follow the link in the photo caption to the associated story. You can find more glimpses of the future (and links) on CFM’s …
Neurodiversifying the Museum
One topic I’ve explored here on the Blog is how museums such as the Pacific Science Center are making themselves more accessible to visitors with autism. And with ACLS Fellow Nicole Ivy, …
Tools for Recruitment and Engagement in Museum Studies
Can you imagine three years after you have earned your degree and in search of the perfect job, you discover that you were the “first” of your race to matriculate through your major? …
The Future of Education Road Trip Begins!
Hi, Nicole here! We are excited to begin this new year with a new project at CFM. My colleague, Sage Morgan-Hubbard (Ford W. Bell Fellow in Museums and P-12 Education) and I are preparing …
We must decolonize our museums!
“Museums can be very painful sites for Native peoples, as they are intimately tied to the colonization process,” writes Ho-Chunk scholar Amy Lonetree. Reading this passage for the first …
Five Strategies for Promoting Workforce Equity: Future-proofing the Museum Workforce
This article originally appeared in the January/February issue of Museum magazine. 1: Re-think Cultural Fit Employers, market researchers, and cultural influencers alike have recently …
Taking the Bias Out of Hiring: Identifying and eliminating unconscious bias in recruitment processes.
This article originally appeared in January/February 2017 issue of Museum magazine. I’m a fan of leading by doing. Which is to say, when I suggest to museums (as I do in every section of …
We’re Not That Hard to Find: Hiring Diverse Museum Staff
This article originally appeared in the January/February 2017 issue of Museum magazine. Guidelines to implement change in your museum and identify a pipeline of diverse employees. In 2015, …
10 Easy Ways Museums Can Be More LGBTQ-friendly
Have you ever been bothered by something, found co-workers who were bothered by the same thing, put your heads together, and made change happen? That’s pretty much how in 2010 we got …
Access and Equity in Museum Internships: A Case Study
In the US in 2015, 17.5 percent of persons with a disability were employed–compared to a 65 percent employment rate for people without a disability: a troubling statistic that should …