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Joy Tucker grew up in eastern New Mexico. Her love for exhibitions was influenced from an early education in an art infused school. After graduating high school, she received a Bachelor of Art in History – Museum Studies with a minor in Graphic Design from the University of Central Oklahoma. Joy interned with the Oklahoma Museum of Arts in Marketing and Communications. She also interned twice with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The first with Junior Curator practices in Culture and Community Life, followed by Museum Management and Installation. Joy aspires to incorporate Afro-Diasporic arts and culture within national museum institutions.

Project: Joy will work on programming that marks the 100th Year of Remembrance of the Tulsa Race Massacre ,and will assist on Curatorial tasks for forthcoming exhibitions, tours, and publication production.

Alitzah Oros is a graduate student at California State University, Long Beach where she is pursuing a Masters in Art History with an emphasis in Contemporary Latin American Art. Her interests include the relationship between art and environmental activism, the decolonization of land and indigenous bodies, and indigenous feminisms of the 20th and 21st centuries. Integral to her studies and approach to research is the belief that art is a vessel and vehicle for change with the ability to inspire and mobilize individuals and communities. She received her B.A. in Art History from California State University, Channel Islands where she developed research on global Baroque networks in colonial and contemporary architecture in Puebla, Mexico.

Project: Alitzah will focus on the launch of The Great Wall of Los Angeles Institute, an 8-year public art initiative to extend the current half-mile mural, that represents the untold histories of California’s minority and indigenous communities, to one-mile.

Molly Hatesohl is an art historian and writer with a background in arts administration, as well as data access management. She received her MA in Art History from the University of Kansas, and is broadly interested in 20th-century art. Specifically, she seeks to elucidate how cultural hybridities are formed through collaborative creative efforts. She has been recognized for outstanding original research on American ballet costume design.

Project: Molly will conduct research and collaborate on content development for an upcoming exhibition and book on American textile designer Dorothy Liebes (1897 – 1972), scheduled to open in Fall 2022, gaining insights into how both the Curatorial and Education departments work.

Dada Wang was born and raised in Beijing, China, and received her B.A. from Macalester College with a major in Art History and a concentration in Critical Theory. She is currently pursuing an M.A. in Art History at UC Davis, and her areas of interest include contemporary Chinese visual culture and postcolonial theory. In 2019, she received an Andrew Mellon fellowship to conduct research on Chinese experimental art in the 1990s, focusing on how Chinese artists in this period negotiated their culturally specific concerns in the globalizing art world, and how their works asserted dissent amid China’s precarious sociopolitical conditions. Her current research concerns water-themed artworks in contemporary China that respond to state-sponsored water-control initiatives, aiming to investigate how they offer political commentary and address ecological crises in the contemporary world.

Project: Dada will work with the curatorial team to conduct research in various upcoming exhibitions and projects, organizing and managing exhibition content, drafting and editing texts, and negotiating loans and image rights.

Juliana Ramirez Herrera is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard University in the History of Art and Architecture Department. Her research focuses on Ancient American and early colonial Latin American art, primarily from the Intermediate Area and the Caribbean. She received a B.A. with High Distinction in Fine Art History and Spanish and an M.A. in Fine Art History from the University of Toronto. Her work has appeared on Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl and has been supported by the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, among others.

Project: Juliana will have the opportunity to gain experience in exhibition development, curatorial research, interpretation, and audience engagement through her work on the upcoming reinstallation of the Arts of the Native and Ancient Americas collection.

Alison Guh is a curator, art historian, and writer based in New York and Los Angeles. Interested in transnational networks of modern and contemporary art, she received her M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art (MODA) from Columbia University and her B.A. in Art History and Psychology from Dartmouth College. She has held positions and internships at The Museum of Modern Art; the Hood Museum of Art; and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection.

Project: Alison will work in the renowned Morgan Library Department to research and assist with the organization of an exhibition on the interdisciplinary artist and educator Nina Katchadourian’s work in 2023.

Sarika Sanyal is a recent graduate of the Masters of Arts Management program at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and has spent the last year as Manager of Programming & Advancement for Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND). During her graduate journey, she also supported the Heinz College Office of Diversity and Inclusion at CMU and served as Program Director of Future Tenant, a graduate student-led arts enterprise that deploys pop-up programming in the Pittsburgh region. Prior to this, Sarika worked in the visual arts in Los Angeles for nine years at various organizations from for profit to nonprofit institutions. Leading up to attending graduate school, Sarika led an artist management team at Tappan Collective, managed small to large scale exhibitions at MOCA LA, provided education support at LACMA in addition to management work in local galleries. Through these experiences she has been an advocate of the arts community to support the vitality that the arts carries and envisions continuing this work through a social impact lens to empower organizations.

Project: Sarika will develop a comprehensive plan to launch a new patron level under the guidance of the Development and Communications teams: the Family Circle, aimed at engaging families and raising funds to support exhibitions and public programs.

Ashleigh Yallaly received her Bachelors in Museum Studies from Arizona State University and her Masters in Museum Studies with a Certificate in Indigenous Studies from the University of Kansas. She is dedicated to privileging the Indigenous voice in all aspects of museum practices and wrote her thesis on the utilisation of contemporary decolonization methods in tribal and non-tribal museums. In her free time she enjoys Star Wars, needlepoint, and her dogs.

Project: Ashleigh will take an active lead in a research project to mine the permanent collection for works by Native American/Indigenous artists (none of whom are designated as such in the metadata) and participate in curatorial discussions.

Kendra Greendeer, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and descendant of the Red Cliff and Fond du Lac Bands of Lake Superior Ojibwe, is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History with a focus on contemporary Native women artists, the transformation of spaces, and decolonial museum practices. Her recent curatorial and academic work encompasses Native American arts and history of the United States. Most recently Kendra has curated and been the conservator for objects exhibited in Ho-Chunk Objects displayed in the permanent installation “Mrs. M’s Cabinet” at the Milwaukee Art Museum and in the co-curated exhibition Intersections: Indigenous Textiles of the Americas at the Ruth Davis Gallery on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. She is currently the Collections Manager for Little Eagle Arts Foundation in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. She earned her B.F.A. in Museum Studies from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and M.A. in Art and Museum Studies from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Project: Kendra will assist the Curator of Native American Art in the development of an upcoming exhibition of emerging artists, which privileges Native artist voices, language and knowledge, in the Museum’s Contemporary and Modern Art Center.

Zoë Toledo is a Diné Asdzáán, a member of the Navajo Nation and a Master of Architecture I candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before studying at the GSD, Zoë researched architecture’s dual role in signaling progress through the control of the built environment and how it remained subject to the logic of heritage and culture. She is a co-founder of the Harvard Indigenous Design Collective and received an A.B in Architecture from Princeton University.

Project: Zoë will work on organizing, coordinating, and executing tasks related to the planning and production of a project to expand the idea of a land acknowledgment, the act of recognizing the Indigenous right to land within colonized places.