As IMPs, we are sometimes asked to step into, or even lead, museums’ community engagement process. What can we do to ensure that community engagement is equitable, just, and fruitful? Jason R.L. Wallace of Blue Goose Solutions will help us think through these questions, avoid pitfalls, and learn to better navigate these complex and important relationships.

Jason leads Blue Goose Solutions, a firm specializing in community engagement for museums, blending expertise in public and digital engagement to foster sustainable, equitable relationships between museums and their communities. In addition to working with museums, his work includes high-profile positions with three White House administrations, traveling with Presidents Bush, Obama, Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Vice President Harris. He also served as a cabinet member for DC Mayor Bowser leading community engagement initiatives.