National Historic Trust: Transforming Trust Sites: For the People by the People

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Through a competively fully funded internship with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) For the People by the People , I presented a set of recommendations on how to improve visitor experiences in historic sites.

An excerpt on the recommendations below and view the presentation from December 2022 here.

On How Museums and Historic Sites Can Create More Inclusive Spaces

“The Woodrow Wilson House in its reckoning with its racist namesake and his institutional policies. As such, in reforming the public spaces and creating more inclusivity, it should consider African-American women internationalists in the twentieth century. One Black woman activists, namely, Ida B. Wells provides a powerful example of how inclusive narratit not only invites more Black visitors into the museum ,but also, helps reckon with the paradoxes of Wilson’s domestic and international policies on freedom and democracy.“

– Mariah A-K Bender, Recommendations to the Woodrow Wilson House, “For the People by the People: Transforming National Trust Historic Sites through the Humanities” December 2022

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