Projects
"If you're always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be." Maya Angelou
I'm thrilled to have joined the RISE Alliance Advisory Council. RISE (Reaffirming Individuals Supporting Education) Alliance is a national center within LSAC designed to support the professional development, enrichment, and wellness needs of student-facing professional law school staff on the front line — people in law school admission and financial aid, diversity, and student services roles. Empowered law school staff members add an important perspective to the work of legal education, helping to build a future of justice that represents a vibrant society.
Bring your favorite handcraft to work on while hanging out with these two knotty hookers (AKA crocheters!). It's like a live podcast, if the hosts were two sarcastic ladies with a love of pop culture, niche facts, and craft beer.
June 2025. This panel will center Culturally Relevant and Sustaining Education (CR-SE), utilizing the award-winning documentary film by Shuja Moore, Pardon Me (2023), to introduce restorative and transformative justice frameworks into art education classrooms and higher ed. Speakers: Heather Hope Kuruvilla, Delaware Law School, Admissions Counselor; Jocelyn Maugans, Upper Darby High School, High School Art Teacher; Leslie Sotomayor, Kutztown University, Assistant Professor of Art Education & FDI Scholar; Stacy Wolfinger, Avon Grove Charter School, K-3 Art Teacher
April 24, 2025, introducing the Pardon Me Discussion Guide to the statewide Pardon Project Community at the invitation of Tobey Oxholm.
2024. Co-written by Heather Hope Kuruvilla and Dra. Leslie Sotomayor III, with the support of Tobey Oxholm and filmmaker Shuja Moore.
November 14, 2023.
Webinar presentation for Independent Museum Professionals.
September 23, 2023
Presented at the Lehigh University Art Gallery event Reaching & Teaching Diverse Perspectives through Art. Image (c) LUAG.
A gift to this campaign will further the work of a collective of marginalized museum and creative professionals developing experiences that dismantle white supremacy culture and amplify BIPOC communities. We want to reimagine the museum model and provide opportunities in gate-kept positions to colleagues, artists, creatives, etc. Will you help us revolutionize the museum exhibition experience?
Agate Creatives is thrilled to announce the launch of our new website!
Visit our new online home to learn more about our nonhierarchical collective and the work we are doing in the museum field.
June 3, 2021
[Collective Liberation]: Disrupt, Dismantle, Manifest virtual convening
With Agate Creatives co-founders, we discuss what it means to meet, have fun, and get sh!t done as an emerging non-hierarchical, anti-racist collective.
Rowman & Littlefield, 2021
Presented in an easily digestible format, this go-to desktop reference guide provides explanations and clarifications on a variety of legal issues and concerns facing today’s museum professional in over 200 plain-language dictionary entries.
March 2021
A working group from AASLH, including members of AASLH’s Small Museums Affinity Community, Field Services Alliance, and Standards and Ethics Committee, put this resource together in summer 2020.
July 2020
Written by members of the AASLH Standards & Ethics Committee, the information in this paper can inform and reinforce core documents within your institution, specifically your collections management policy and code of ethics statement. collection.
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May 21, 2020
AASLH Conversations live webinar
With fellow AASLH Standards & Ethics Committee members Sally Yerkovich and Erin Richardson, introducing the AASLH position paper, “Valuing History Collections.”
October 24, 2019
American Alliance of Museums, Independent Museum Professionals Network
With Ginny Cascio Bonifacino, Esq., we discuss the ins and outs of work as an IMP (independent consultant) in the museum field.
October 1, 2015
Presented with Dr. Sally Yerkovich at Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.
DePaul Journal of Art, Technology Law, and Intellectual Property, vol. 119 (2011).
Master's Thesis, Seton Hall University, Museum Professions
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