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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Empowerment?

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

Dr. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. didn't mince words.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

The COVID-19 pandemic is disproportionately affecting women and girls around the world, which threatens the gains made in the past decades in advancing women’s economic empowerment, health, rights, and safety. She has been working with Women Win in various capacities since 2011 on a range of projects and programs both in the U.S.