Debra Everett-Lane Email & Phone Number

Greater New York City Area

Work with colleagues across the Museum to assess the current experience and condition of permanent halls, develop strategies for remediation and improvement, test and evaluate through prototyping, and develop implementation plans for successful strategies.• Through consultation with colleagues and visitor evaluation, assess the current state of permanent halls in terms of content, exhibit design, user experience, and physical condition.• Research, develop, and test strategies to update interpretation, exhibit design, user experience, physical condition, accessibility, and more.• Develop museum experiences and interpretation through all phases, from concept to production, including exhibits, interpretive graphics, digital interactives, games, and media. • Manage content producers across multiple disciplines to achieve project intent, schedule, and budget. • Collaborate with staff across the museum and beyond, including scientific curators, exhibit designers, educators, public program developers, development, marketing, and outside designers and experts.• Manage bi-monthly Exhibition DEI Workshop, and help to develop new strategies for culturally diverse and sensitive interpretation across the museum.• Formerly Associate Director of Gilder Exhibit Content: Oversaw development of content and visitor experience for the new Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation (completion expected spring 2023) and other projects, including the Insectarium, the Butterfly Vivarium, and the three-story Collections Core, and the renovated Halls of Gems & Minerals (reopened 2021).

New York City

Design, manage, and run the CO&P Family Day festival, an offshoot of the larger CO&P festival that attracts more than 1,000 children and adults annually.• Manage all aspects of Family Day, including budgeting, scheduling, design team, event promotion and documentation, installation, coordination of volunteers, and running event onsite.• Design and run original live-action field games and mobile app-based games.• Script content for printed graphics and marketing materials.

Greater New York City Area

Work with prominent cultural and educational clients, and a variety of design partners, to develop creative strategies and engaging experiences from concept to implementation. Clients include:Cloudberry Studio• Created experiences and content that focus on early childhood development. Projects include master planning and concept design for Habitot Children’s Museum (Berkeley) and Tag! Children’s Museum of St. Augustine.• Developed stand-alone products, including Pick&Play modular exhibit system and educational toolkits.Roger Westerman Design• Developed the master plan and preliminary concept for a new museum at the landmarked Nobska Lighthouse in Falmouth, MA, including assessment of market competition, audience needs, staffing requirements, outreach to potential partners, and concept design for exhibits and programs.• Developed a templated exhibit system for the Brooklyn Historical Society's Teen Council Program.UCNYC• Partner with professor at the Univ. of California San Diego to design, build, and facilitate UCSD’s first domestic travel program, UCNYC, and its inaugural course, The New York Theatre & Dance Scene.• Provide course instruction, schedule performances, coordinate and host talks with prominent guest speakers from multiple theater disciplines.Young Women's Leadership Network• Design an online communications and knowledge-sharing platform for the five YWLN schools in NYC. • Collaborate with website designer to develop platform functionality, user experience, content, look and feel, implementation plan, and pilot testing.BioBus• Developed an updated program strategy for this mobile science program, including enhanced experiences, curriculum expansion, audience-building, outreach, and program documentation.World Science Festival• Researched, designed, and scripted educator guides (with classroom activities) for multimedia science shows, Icarus at the Edge of Time and Light Falls: Space, Time, and an Obsession of Einstein.

New York, United States

Developed exhibits and experiences for cultural, educational, and social impact projects.• Conducted initial project-related research, relationship building, and outreach to potential clients. • Worked with client teams, community partners, audiences, designers in multiple disciplines, and content experts to understand needs and aspirations, challenges and opportunities. • Researched and designed content for exhibits, programs, interactives, websites, and more.• Researched audience engagement strategies, design innovations, educational methods and standards, and competitive landscape across multiple industries and experience types.

Created exhibits, interactive experiences, print and media content, programs, and games for cultural, educational, and corporate projects, including museums (Boston Museum of Science, Ellis Island National Museum of Immigration, Statue of Liberty Museum, American Museum of Natural History), STEM experiences (US Golf Association, World Science Festival, The Beacon at PNC Tower), healthcare education (City Health Works, Baylor Scott & White Health), and retail environments (Comcast, Staples).• Managed and mentored team of designers in all aspects of content, activity, and program design.• Designed and built exhibits, analog and digital interactives, programs, games, and websites through all phases, including proposals, master planning, concept design, design development, prototyping, and production.• Researched, designed, curated, and scripted content for exhibits, programs, games, educational toolkits,infographics, data visualization, videos, digital interactives, websites, and more.• Worked closely with designers across multiple disciplines, including graphic design, media design,software design, game design, and physical design, as well as content experts in multiple fields.• Supported business development and marketing by identifying and pursuing business opportunities,writing marketing materials, and participating in networking and public speaking events.• Researched audience demographics and engagement strategies, design innovations, educationalmethods and standards, and competitive landscape across multiple industries and experience types.• Worked with clients to evaluate audience needs, prototype success, visitor feedback, and more.

Worked with LEAP to design and run a four-year professional development program in American history for teachers at public elementary, middle, and high schools in the Bronx and Manhattan. • Collaborated on and won a multi-year federal Teaching American History Grant, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, to fund the LEAP program. • Designed curricula for the program, including content lectures for teachers, classroom activities for grades K-12, field trips, and walking tours.• Led professional development workshops for public school teachers. • Coordinated partnership with Columbia University history faculty, including inviting participants and scheduling lectures.

Researched, designed, scripted, and managed content for multiple exhibitions and education programs. • Researched and selected items for inclusion in new onsite exhibitions, including Darwin, Yellowstone to Yukon, and Voices from South of the Clouds. Scripted exhibit panels.• Coordinated loans and asset management for Darwin exhibit items, including over 300 documents and objects, for travel of the exhibition to multiple domestic and international sites.• Researched, designed, and scripted educator’s guide for the space show Journey to the Stars. • Interviewed and wrote profiles of scientists for the online course Climate Change.

Designed and taught courses for undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni. Expertise in history of science; modern European social and cultural history; gender history.• Participated in program revision for Columbia’s iconic course Contemporary Civilization• Conducted pedagogy training for instructors, teaching assistants, and graduate students.• Chaired organizational committee for national conference on Core Curricula in the 21st Century and managed conference program, including coordination of speakers, audience-building, and logistics.• Co-authored “Teaching Gender Issues in Contemporary Civilization;” researched and wrote articles for the newsletter of the Institute for Research on Women & Gender.

Ph.D., Modern European History And History Of Science

M.Phil., Medieval History

B.A., History

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