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The State of Museums: Voices From the Field | Chapter: “The Past as a Brave Space: Reframing Relevance” | MuseumsEtc, Edinburgh/Cambridge | October 2018

Journal of Museum Education | Guest Editor and Author | Vol. 44, No. 2, June 2019: “Expanding our Community of Practice: Professional Development in Museums”

Journal of Museum Education | Guest Editor and Author | Vol. 43, No. 4, December 2018: “On the Floor: Museum Teaching Techniques in the 21st Century”

Journal of Museum Education | Guest Editor and Author | Vol. 42, No. 4, December 2017: “This is Not a Test: Real Challenges, Real Strategies from the Field”

JME40 Blog | Co-Editor and Contributor | www.museumedu.org/blog | Posts: April, May, September, December 2015; November 2016; January 2018

Elisabeth Nevins, principal of Seed/Ed, began her career in museum education in 2000 after working in nonprofit fundraising and historic preservation. She has worked as a consultant since 2009, providing education, interpretation, and evaluation services to museums of varying focus and size throughout the Northeast.

Through her consultancy, Nevins has had the privilege of working with passionate museum professionals (and volunteers) and their local communities to develop informal learning experiences that harness the power of museum collections to illuminate the human experience. She is drawn to collaborative projects that invite learners to engage with cultural resources—whether historic documents, works of art, or landscapes—in ways that are intimate and personal, inspiring deep connection, curiosity, and, ultimately, new understandings of our world. She is particularly intrigued by the possibilities of placemaking and place-based learning.

Her past staff jobs include positions at Revolutionary Spaces, the Old North Church historic site, Connecticut Historical Society, and Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Museum Education and recently co-edited three issues. Her essay “The Past as a Brave Space: Reframing Relevance” was published in The State of Museums: Voices from the Field from MuseumsEtc in fall 2018.

Nevins holds a B.A. in history from Yale University and an M.S.Ed. in museum education and early adolescent education from Bank Street Graduate School of Education. She teaches for Bank Street’s museum studies program and speaks regularly on issues in the field for Boston-area museum studies and public history programs.