Lotte Lent

Lotte Lent
Lecturer, Museum Education
(202) 994-6682
llent@gwu.edu

Lotte Lent, Assistant Director of the Museum Education Program, has 20 years of experience as an interpretation professional. She has served in roles ranging from park ranger and chief of interpretation to advising on interpretation planning and museum education in Australia and the US.

While living Down Under in the ‘90s, Lotte was an environmental educator, trainer, and author of guidebooks for interpreters working in natural and cultural areas. She developed Australia’s first solar-powered interpretive drive trail and won, together with her colleagues on the project, a national award for an interpretive trail at Shark Bay World Heritage Area.

In the US, Lotte has provided independent contracting for a variety of organizations and museums including the Institute for Museum and Library Services, the US Botanic Garden, the Smithsonian Associates, and the International Spy Museum. Lotte is credentialed as a Certified Interpretive Trainer and certification evaluator for the National Association for Interpretation.

Most recently, Lotte was the researcher and writer for the National Park Service 21st Century Interpretive Skills Vision Paper. Lotte is also an invited facilitator for the Future of Learning Institute at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Lotte is an instructor for the Museum Education Program core courses and electives including Facilitating Museum Learning I: Fundamentals, Facilitating Museum Learning II: Field Placement & Seminar, Resource Interpretation and Behind the Scenes: Experiential Museum Education.

Education
M.Sc., University of Western Australia
B.A., Carnegie-Mellon University
Programs

Publications

Interpretive Skills 21st Century National Park Service Vision Paper 2014 (researcher/writer).

In the News

Lotte Lent participated in a Youth Mental Health First Aid training program. Youth Mental Health First Aid is designed to teach parents, family members, caregivers, teachers, school staff, peers, neighbors, health and human services workers, and other caring citizens how to help an adolescent who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. She recommends the training, which was part of www.LEADnow.org and was taught on campus by a GW student.

Lotte Lent, Museum Education Program Assistant Director, and Dr. Carol Stapp presented the poster "Making Thinking Visible after DEAI Training" at the fall 2018 Diversity Summit: Embracing Diversity and Inclusion at GW. The poster exhibited individual responses of both the Museum Education Program class of 2018 and faculty to diversity training and other DEAI-related curricular materials in their master's program.