Students and alumni from GSEHD's Museum Education Program (MEP), along with MEP faculty, advocated for museums on Capitol Hill last week as part of the American Alliance of Museums annual Museums Advocacy Day. Every year, all students in GSEHD's Museum Education Program participate in this leadership and advocacy day.
For more than 15 years, Museums Advocacy Day has been providing the essential training and support advocates need to meet effectively with members of Congress and their staff. Museums Advocacy Day is an opportunity for our students to unite with museum colleagues and supporters from across the country as one voice to reaffirm the essential value, collective contributions, and aspirations of museums while making the critical case for museums directly to Congress.
In The U.S. Capitol Visitor Center: MEP students Lea Winston, Domenica Ochoa, and Meg Capo, with Lotte Lent (MEP Acting Director)
Selfie at Rep. Don Beyer's Office: taken by GSEHD alumna Karen Daly, including students Wildalys Quiñones Del Pino, Fangyi Ma, Lea Winston, and Meg Capo, along with museum professionals