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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

The MAH’s historic Evergreen Cemetery brings together the Homeless Services Center and MAH volunteers or the local rugby team to collaboratively restore the cemetery. We scaffold levels of participatory experiences at events that are intergenerational, multidisciplinary and appeal to different types of learners.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted.