Virtual Summer Workshop Series for K-12 Educators

Featured Expert:

Emily Hirshorn (she/her) is the Associate Director of School Programs. A native Philadelphian and a graduate of the School District of Philadelphia public schools, she has devoted her career to teaching and managing educational programs in urban schools. At the Penn Museum, Emily has spent the last 10 years building and leading the Unpacking the Past program, which provides free pre-visit lessons and field trips to 6th and 7th grade classes in Philadelphia public schools. Previously, Emily managed one of the largest Out-of-School Time Programs sponsored by the City of Philadelphia and taught fifth grade in Baton Rouge and English as a Foreign Language in Mexico and Guatemala. She holds a B.A. in Geology from Colgate University and an M.S. in Non-Profit Leadership from the University of Pennsylvania.

Featured Experts:

Ah-Young Kim (she/her) is the Associate Director of Interpretive Programs. With two decades of experience in the field of museum education, she was previously Manager of School Visits at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where she supervised the daily operations of school and teacher programs. She also played a crucial role in community engagement initiatives and was a member of various special exhibition interpretation teams, contributing to education programs, crafting teacher resources, and developing content for digital interactives.

Adam Rizzo (he/him) is the School Visit Manager. Working in museum education for the past 10 years, Adam has experience teaching K–12, college, and post-graduate students in the Museum, as well as developing classroom resources and teaching and developing medical humanities curricula. He received his M.A. in Art History and Archaeology from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU.

Featured Expert:

Kevin D. Impellizeri, Ph.D. (he/him) is the Assistant Director of Virtual Programs. He develops and facilitates the Penn Museum’s virtual programming for all ages. He has over a decade of education experience teaching in classroom and museum settings as well as virtual and hybrid learning environments. Previously, Dr. Impellizeri developed educational programs—including lessons, exhibits, tours, youth programming, and even educational games—at the Mütter Museum of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Fort Mifflin on the Delaware, and Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site.

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Julia Commander (she/her) is a Senior Project Conservator Currently focusing on monumental stone architecture for the upcoming reinstallation of the Penn Museum’s Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries. Julia earned her M.S. from the Winterthur/University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation in 2017, specializing in objects conservation and preventive collections care. She has experience at the American Museum of Natural History and the Gordion Excavations in Turkey. Her interest in archaeological materials was further developed through post-graduate training at the J. Paul Getty Museum Antiquities Department and a research fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Featured Expert:

Quincy Greene (he/him) is an educator and public health professional with over two decades of experience working with diverse marginalized and underrepresented groups in Philadelphia, including communities of color and the LGBTQIA+ community. He has worked in the fields of data analysis, public health, youth development, and education for biostatistics and public health research, and he has helped create programs that provide sociocultural support, academic enrichment, and psychosocial resources. Greene was instrumental in the development of the Out4STEM program, a summer and after-school youth program hosted by The College of Physicians of Philadelphia that helps give LGBTQIA+ youth the tools, resources, and professional mentorship to pursue STEM related careers. He also created and co-facilitated the first of an annual symposium cosponsored by the Out4STEM program and the Gender and Sexuality Development Clinic at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)—Annual Symposium for Providers, Understanding Gender Identity & Development for Transgender Youth— which assisted providers in offering psychosocial and medical support for gender variant, gender expansive and transgender youth up to age 21 and their families. His repertoire includes implementing programs emphasizing health awareness and career development through professional mentorship.