Stacey Mann
Stacey Mann is an interpretive strategist and learning experience designer with over 20 years of experience in the museum industry. She holds a Master’s in Learning Sciences from Northwestern University and is an adjunct professor at University of the Arts.
Mann consults broadly with museums and cultural institutions on how best to engage audiences both onsite and online advocating social change through inclusive storytelling, civic literacy, and empathy. Early work with the Exploratorium provided the foundation for an inquiry-based and user-centered design methodology that she applies to award-winning digital media interaction design, exhibition development, and interpretive planning. Her areas of expertise include the pedagogical design of learning environments, public interpretation of human rights and social justice issues, social and cultural capital in museums, and the intersection of civic engagement with media literacy.
Mann sits on the editorial board of Exhibition: The Journal of Museum Exhibition for the American Association of Museums. As a founding member of the Empathetic Museum, she researches and lectures on issues of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in the museum field. She is active with Museums and Race, an industry-wide initiative to address issues of race and representation in museum collections, exhibition, program, and staffing. Mann also serves as director of strategy for Unsilence, a Chicago-based human rights education nonprofit, for which she oversees program design and implementation.