We Educate People About Education
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Your Baby's Amazing Brain
The exhibition, Your Baby’s Amazing Brain is a 48-foot, traveling, walk-thru, interactive mobile exhibition designed to showcase the importance of developing minds in babies, infants and toddlers from birth up to age 5. |
What We Do
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Alexandra Wallace is seated in front of bamboo reeds in the Japanese Garden, her favorite spot at the Huntington Library.
About midway through my undergraduate program at San Jose State University, I
realized that while I loved anthropology, I did not want to become a career anthropologist. The two main careers our program prepared us for were publishing and going into academia or working for a Cultural Resource Management (CRM) firm as an archaeologist. I greatly enjoyed learning theory and I loved the handling of artifacts and archives, but neither outlook was something I wanted to dedicate my life to doing. (And, affectionately, “shovel-bumming” it in the desert with a CRM for years just wasn’t my style). When I came upon the M.A. History & Archival Studies program at Claremont Graduate University (CGU), I saw a program that incorporated the academic discipline I enjoy while also focusing on the material preservation of documents and artifacts. My current career outlook has me pondering between archivism and museum curation so I’m hoping to gain as much experience as possible in the museum and archival fields. In my undergrad, my professors emphasized the need for understanding different modes of meaning-making and ways of knowing. I was excited to hear that a museum seeking to answer the questions of learning differences and prioritize those who campaigned for education equality existed nearby. Both my parents have spent over 40 years collectively in their careers in education. My father is a high school education specialist and history teacher in my hometown of San Diego for 26 years, and my mother has worked for 15 years as a counselor at all levels K-12. Both of my parents have M.A. degrees and have done extensive work with best practices in pedagogy. From them, I learned that there were many different modes of learning to be explored as well as backgrounds that contributed to them. Now, I am so excited to intern at MOTAL! I am enjoying working with Greta Nagel, Anna Emerald, and the rest of the team as we prepare for the opening of the new museum space.We have been working on cataloging and re-organizing the artifacts for the new location, along with researching and presenting donor stories. I have been learning so much and hope to put all my experience to good use in the future! |
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