5 Steps to Better Community Conversations
Community conversations can be instrumental in the growth of an organization. However, they can also be an organizations down fall. These 5 steps can help anyone participating in an conversation, particularly those in power positions or from an organizations. Honor People’s Perception We all filter the world through our experiences. Therefore, everyone’s perception of reality …
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Intersectionality & Museums
Intersectionality, coined in 1989 by legal historian Kimberlé Crenshaw, highlights the fact that the many factors of being human, including race, gender, and religion, overlap in important ways. These points of overlap, or intersection, are often positions of oppression. Think of race and gender. In American society, the position of power in race is whiteness …
Bias in Data Analysis #musedata #musetech #data #bias
This is the second in a series of posts about confronting bias. These #longreads use narrative to help bring up bias in an accessible manner. As Director of the Art Museum of New South Overthere, you are constantly being asked to make decisions based on data. Sure, you had your last math class in 10th grade, …
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Creative Self-Actualization #selfcaresunday #selfcare
We are on a giant rock that whizzes through space without a pilot. How is that for a lack of control? Well, for most of us, the spinning of the globe doesn’t even factor in our control issues. The reason might be that we don’t even think about it. The other thing is that it …
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Test Your Understanding of Bias in Decision-Making #implicitbias #confrontbias
Congratulations! You’re the new director of the art museum of New South Overthere. It’s a cash poor institution with a great collection of little known masters of underwater basket weaving, lantern slides, zeppelin models, and lamp glass. Your first few months are exhilarating but also exhausting. You make some missteps. Its natural. But, the …
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15 Takeaways from #AAM2017: #Inclusion #Politics #Action
“I’m calling for love and I’m standing against hate.” -Dr. Johnnetta Cole The 2017 AAM Annual Conference in St. Louis was a busy one, both in the conversation presentations and outside the presentations. I have already written a little bit about #AAMSlaveAuction. Here are my notes from the conference presentations. Big Takeaways: Inclusion is small …
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7 Action Steps Post- #AAM2017SlaveAuction #AAM2017
The Context: The 2017 AAM conference was held in St. Louis, a city with racial challenges since long before Ferguson. Five thousand or so delegates joined the AAM team for the conference, whose theme was Gateways for Understanding: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion in Museums. AAM shared why St. Louis served as a useful place …
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Big Trouble in Little Data #musetech
Big data is , well, big thing these days. Honestly, it has been for a while. We make so much data by interacting with digital tools. Daily 2.5 Exabytes are produced every day. That is the equivalent to 5 million laptops filled to the brim with data. Imagine yourself right now attempting to find one …
Are we doing enough to #SaveTheNEA ?
I have been ruminating on this post for a couple days. I started thinking about this issue when I saw a number of images showing coal workers and their plight. At the same time, I was seeing a number of tweets about #SavetheNEA. I assumed that the importance of arts is a result of my …
The Danish word hygge is hard to translate. Books like the Little Book of Hygge, often translate the word as coziness. These authors go on to share how that word is but a scarce approximation of its actual meaning. This Danish cultural norm, a sort of way of being, is central to that nation’s high …