GIRL MUSEUM - Key Persons


Amber Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Junior Curator
Amber holds an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a BA (Hons) in Visual Culture from the University of Brighton. Specializing in 18th to 20th century British art, she has collaborated on a number of exhibitions.

Ashley E. Remer

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Head Girl
Ashley E. Remer is an art historian by trade and a global citizen by experience. She has collaborated with scholars, educators, artists, NGOs, and girls around the world to raise awareness and promote change for girls' rights. Through Girl Museum, she has developed a girl-centered feminist framework for looking at arts and culture. Currently working on her PhD at the Australian National University, her research is focused on representations of girls in art and how they are interpreted in public museums. She asserts that work to de-misogynize art history and museums is as essential as de-colonizing them.

Claire Amundson

Job Titles:
  • Curator

Dr. Catherine Driscoll

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Associate Professor, Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney

Dr. Claudia Mitchell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Professor, Faculty of Education, McGill University

Dr. Ilana Nash

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Dr. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Education, Penn State University

Dr. Kelly Schrum

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Dr. Lynne Vallone

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University

Dr. Mary Celeste Kearney

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Dr. Miriam Forman-Brunell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Professor of History, University of Missouri - Kansas City

Dr. Rachel Devlin

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Associate Professor of History, Tulane University

Dr. Valerie Walkerdine

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

Elizabeth Dillenburg

Job Titles:
  • Resident Scholar
Assistant Professor of History at Ohio State Universtiy, specializing in modern Europe, gender history, and the history of childhood.

Hillary Rose

Job Titles:
  • Education Advisor
History and biology teacher with a Master's in Museum Studies, working in various museums and education from age 3 through university. Enjoys traveling with her husband and playing with her two huskies.

Mary Case

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Mercedes Pino

At a very early age, I would line up all of my dolls and play teacher. As a first-generation Cuban American, my parents always encouraged me to be the best at whatever I wanted to be. So I studied to be a teacher and a lawyer. Somewhere along the way I mixed the two and decided to work at a law school. Now my job is to encourage students to be the best whatever they decide to be.

Scarlett Evans

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Contemporary Art
Londoner obsessed with television, books, traveling, and art. Working as a journalist in London and pursuing a life of cultural and geographical exploration.

Teri R. Abstein

Teri is a pragmatic collector and an obsessive organizer. These attributes lend themselves handily to museum work. She landed in her museum vocation almost by accident through fortuitous decisions and the faith of others. To both fate and certitude she will be eternally grateful for they have allowed her to ‘play with the stuff' and ‘share with the kids'.

Yuwen Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Education Assistant
Born and raised in Anyang, China, Yuwen holds an Master's in Education and works as an educational designer in Canada. Her interests include children's literature, gender identity, and creating digital safe spaces for girls.