Alyssa Greenberg is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and a recipient of the University Fellowship. She is a former education assistant at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. Her research interests include museum pedagogy and the museum as a site of activism. Her research has been presented at Tufts University, the University of Sussex, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, the Statens Museum for Kunst, and other venues. She serves as a member of the UIC’s Art History Graduate Student Association and the UIC Graduate Employees Organization. She received a BA from Oberlin College in 2009 and an MA from the Bard Graduate Center in 2011.
Megan Carney
Megan Carney is the Director of the Gender & Sexuality Center, one of the Centers for Cultural Understanding and Social Change at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she provides vision and directs resources for collaborative programs that investigate and reveal diverse LGBTQ identities and histories using oral history collection, participatory workshops and a variety of public programs. Megan is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the School of Theatre and Music at UIC. She has an MFA in Theatre Arts from Virginia Tech with a focus on Directing and Public Dialogue, is a founding director of About Face Youth Theatre, and a member of Rivendell Theatre Ensemble.