Comprehensive diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion (DEAI) efforts are key to creating museum experiences that engage all visitors. But ensuring that those practices are organization-wide rather than limited in scope requires the full and enthusiastic involvement of museum leadership.
During this webinar, a panel of museum chief executives share their journeys to championing equity and inclusion practices at their institutions. This discussion will offer a range of perspectives and illustrate each speaker’s unique path toward building and sustaining a diversity and equity commitment across their museum. From creating a diversity officer position, to changing strategies for curating content, to transforming internal equity efforts, the speakers will share their different approaches and commitments.
This session is an opportunity for museum professionals at all levels to learn more about how to cultivate leadership support for equity and inclusion efforts in museums.
Participants will:
- Hear about the key moments that convinced the speakers to embrace DEAI practices at their institutions.
- Learn about trends identified in the recent CCLI National Landscape Study about the role of leadership in supporting DEAI efforts.
- Join a Q&A about how to advance organization-wide practices.
Speakers:
- Ruth Haus, President, Living History Farms (Urbandale, Iowa)
- Steve Hinkley, President and CEO, Adventure Science Center (Nashville, Tennessee)
- Alexandra Kennedy, Executive Director, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (Amherst, Massachusetts)
This webinar is brought to you by CCLI (Cultural Competence Learning Institute), a partnership among the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose, the Association of Children’s Museums, the Association of Science and Technology Centers, and Garibay Group.
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Date:
Thursday, April 22, 2021
3:00-4:00 pm ET
Price: Free