The Inclusive Museum Leader by Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko

The Inclusive Museum Leader by Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko

The Inclusive Museum Leader offers insights and perspectives from two recognized museum leaders who have joined together to offer practical solutions and opportunities responding to the call for museums to play an active social justice role.

The Inclusive Museum Leader provides unique, first-Voice perspectives on how museums can and should position themselves to best service the needs, interests, and priorities of deserving, diverse communitiesCinnamon Catlin-Legutko and Chris Taylor have long labored in museum trenches doing the good work of lifting up the necessary stories and voices to counterbalance the legacies of exclusion and erasure and to promote the principles and strategies of diversity, inclusion, equity, and accessibility. Museum professionals at all levels of experience and expertise would do well to add this volume to their reading list. -- Eduardo Díaz, museum administrator
The Inclusive Museum Leader should be required reading for all museum professionals. This brilliant and urgently needed book provides critical reflection and deep and rigorous analysis of the steps needed to achieve a more inclusive museum world. Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko and Chris Taylor have assembled an amazing group of museum leaders and scholars to think through effective leadership styles that will enable transformative practices in museums. It is time for museums to assist with efforts towards social justice, community healing, and empowerment, and this superb book provides a road map on how to achieve these necessary goals. The book is well researched, the prose lively and engaging, and will serve as an invaluable resource for all those seeking to understand how museums can, and should, promote inclusion and social justice in the 21st century. -- Amy Lonetree, associate professor of history, University of California Santa Cruz
This book has so much heart and hope for our field. Thank you to the editors and authors for pointing the way forward, toward museums that are equitable, accountable, reflective, and human--from the inside out. -- Rainey Tisdale, museum consultant
The Inclusive Museum Leader offers a refreshingly candid insight into museum leadership for the twenty-first century. The editors and contributors confront the troubling trends in diversity, equity & inclusion work and challenge the reader to deeper more deliberate approach to leadership. -- Noelle Trent, PhD, director of interpretation, collections & education, National Civil Rights Museum

Working in museums for more than twenty years, Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko believes they have the power to change lives, inspire movements, and challenge authority.
A museum director since 2001, Cinnamon is a frequent presenter at national museum meetings and is often asked to comment on national museum issues. As the president/CEO of the Abbe Museum (Bar Harbor) from 2009 to 2019, she was the motivational leader behind the museum's decolonization initiative, working with the Native communities in Maine to develop policies and protocols to ensure collaboration and cooperation with Wabanaki people. Prior to joining the Abbe in 2009, Cinnamon was the director of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana where she led the organization to the National Medal for Museum Service in 2008. In 2019, Cinnamon became the director of the Illinois State Museum. Cinnamon holds a BA in anthropology and art history from Purdue University, and is a graduate of the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) MA program in anthropology with a specialization in museum studies.
In 2016 Cinnamon gave her first TEDx talk, We Must Decolonize Our Museums (www.tedxdirigo.com) and she's been featured on the Museopunks podcast series. She's the author of Museum Administration 2.0 (2016) published by Rowman & Littlefield, The Art of Healing: The Wishard Art Collection (2004) published by the Indiana Historical Society, and co-editor of the Small Museum Toolkit (2012) published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Chris Taylor spent 15 years working in museums, primarily at the Minnesota Historical Society. He began his career as an educator, but quickly saw the power that history can have on an individual’s identity. Through the stories they elevate (or suppress), museums have the power to either fortify or disrupt the status quo, but Chris came to understand that this must be an intentional choice. He began teaching undergraduate courses at the University of Minnesota on “Diversity in the Museum Field” as part of a museum fellowship program designed to increase the diversity of museum professionals. At the Minnesota Historical Society, he successfully created the department of inclusion and community engagement to steward the museums systemic efforts for inclusion and equity. He also became the first chief inclusion officer in the museum field, a role he occupied for 4 years. Museums around the country sought out Chris as a consultant for their inclusion and equity efforts. In 2019, Chris Taylor was recruited to become the chief inclusion officer for the state of Minnesota, one of only two states to have such a position. There he leads the development and implementation of a statewide strategy for inclusion and equity across over 20 state agencies. His publications include "Getting Our House in Order: Moving from Diversity to Inclusion" published in The American Archivist.

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ISBN 13	9781538152249
ISBN 10	153815224X
Title	The Inclusive Museum Leader
Author	Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
Series	American Alliance Of Museums
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year published	2021-07-05
Number of pages	326
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