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Staff

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Tam Welch

Program Coordinator: Visitor Experience and Community Outreach

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Faculty Research Directors

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Gina Dent

Co-Director, Visualizing Abolition, Professor, Feminist Studies, Humanities Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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Ari Friedlaender

Co-Director, An Aesthetics of Resilience, Professor, Ocean Science and Institute of Marine Sciences

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Faculty Advisors

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Postdoctoral Fellows

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Graduate Student Fellows

Chloe Lew

Graduate Student Researcher, An Aesthetics of Resilience

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Artist Fellows