Currently:
> Working as the Executive Director of The Museum of Art & History @ McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, CA (since May 11)
Past:
> Consulting with the Wild Center, Balboa Park Learning Institute, and the Swedish Museum of World Cultures (March 11)
> Working with the Skirball Cultural Center on participatory elements of a forthcoming exhibition on women’s health and safety issues in developing countries (July 10 - Feb 11)
> Working with the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum to develop ways to deepen and broaden relationships with teens (May 09 - Mar 11)
> Teaching a class in Participatory Audience Engagement for graduate museology students at the University of Washington (Jan - Mar 11)
> Working with the Dallas Museum of Art to help refocus their late night program (Jan-Feb 11)
>Consulting with the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Museu Picasso, and the Pittsburgh Children’s Museum (Nov/Dec 10)
> Working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium to design an online community for aquarium professionals about communicating climate change to visitors (Oct 09-Dec 10)
>Providing workshops on participatory design for the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Minnesota Historical Society (June 10)
>Providing workshops on participatory design for the Smithsonian, the Noyce Leadership Institute, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the New York Hall of Science (April-May 10)
>Providing workshops on participatory design for the Levine Museum of the New South, the Museum of Life and Science, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Ontario Science Centre (Jan 10)
> Providing workshops in design for participation for museum, library, and cultural professionals throughout New Zealand and Australia (Nov-Dec 09)
> Serving as an advisor to the Statens Museum for Kunst in Denmark in support of their SMK.dk digital initiatives (Oct 09)
> Working with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to develop an alternate reality game around several Balboa Park cultural sites (July-Oct 09)
> Designing a 6-day urban science adventure camp for 8th grade girls with the Girls Math and Science Partnership (April - Aug 09)
> Running a workshop to help the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History explore social participation in future galleries (May 09)
> Serving on the IMLS task force on 21st Century Skills, which resulted in this report and institutional assessment instrument (July 08 - Aug 09)
> Teaching a course on Social Technology at the University of Washington graduate Museology program (April - June 09)
> Running a workshop to help Historic New Harmony reenvision audience engagement with their visitor center (March 09)
> Running a workshop to help the Denver Art Museum develop multi-platform, participatory techniques in adult programming (March 09)
> Running a workshop on participatory design techniques for American history exhibition with the Chicago History Museum (Feb 09)
> Working with White Oak Associates on the strategic plan for a new Canada Science and Technology Museum (Nov 08 - ongoing)
> Helping the Boston Children’s Museum develop an online/onsite game experience to encourage green behaviors (Nov 08 - Jan 09)
> Leading interpretative design for The Mint Project as part of their development of a San Francisco city history museum (Sept 08 - Dec 09)
> Designing participatory experiments (like this) for the Oakland Museum as part of their redesign of the Natural Sciences gallery into a visitor co-created space (Nov-Dec 08)
> Strategic consulting with TELUS World of Science - Calgary on social technology integration into their new science centre (Sept 08)
> Design and implementation of a media exhibit design institute for teens at the Chabot Space & Science Center (July - Aug 08)
> Exhibit development support for the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s 2010 exhibition on climate change (July 08 - Feb 09)
> Leadership, design, and project management for multi-platform exhibit development of The Tech Virtual Test Zone at The Tech Museum of Innovation (Sept 07 - June 08)
> Creative narrative game design for the CSI:NY virtual experience with The Electric Sheep Company (June - Sept 07)
> Experience design for Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum (Aug 05 - June 07)
