Robin Marquis, Accessibility Coordinator
The Peale; Baltimore, Maryland
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Robin Marquis is an artist, facilitator, disability activist and accessibility consultant. They have over a decade of experience leading initiatives, programming, and community collaborations with institutions of all sizes and people of all ages. Marquis currently serves as the Community Outreach Coordinator for Access Smithsonian and as the Accessibility Coordinator for The Peale Center. As an artist with a disability, Marquis is part of a national network of thought-leaders shaping the conversation about accessibility in the arts, while contributing to local efforts that combine creativity, education and activism to achieve positive social change.

Katy Menne, Curator of Education
North Carolina Maritime Museum at Southport; Southport, North Carolina
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Katy earned her BA in History and Masters in Teaching Secondary Social Studies at the University of South Carolina. Since 2011 she has been teaching in formal and informal settings and joined the staff at NC Maritime Museum at Southport in 2018 as the Curator of Education. She started inclusion and diversity initiatives, spearheaded the museum becoming the first Certified Autism Center in the state of North Carolina, and has gained the distinction of Certified Educator by National Geographic. Menne was the 2020 recipient of Southeastern Museum Conference’s Emerging Museum Professional Award. In addition to her job duties at the museum, she also serves on the Planning Committee Member for Able Buddies, Special Needs Community of Pender and Onslow County; Brunswick County Local Interagency Coordinating Council; Environmental Educators of North Carolina’s Diversity Equity and Inclusion Action Team; Southeastern Museum Conference’s Equity and Inclusion Action Team Program Coordinator; North Carolina Museums Council Programs Committee and Assistant Communications Chair; and Community in Schools Board of Young Professionals.

Meredith Peruzzi, Director 
National Deaf Life Museum, Gallaudet University; Washington, DC
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Meredith Peruzzi is a public historian and museum professional. Her primary research field is the history of Gallaudet University, and the history of deaf education and the deaf community in the United States. In addition to her work as a museum curator and administrator, she is a frequent consultant on the topic of making exhibitions and programming more accessible to Deaf visitors, which is the subject of her current PhD research at the University of Leicester.