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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

• 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

Education record