March 14, 2017
Speaker: JO ELLEN PARKER, President of the Carnegie Museums
Founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1895, Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh are a collection of four distinctive museums: Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Science Center, and The Andy Warhol Museum. The museums reach more than 1.28 million people annually through exhibitions, educational programs, outreach activities, and special events.
About the Speaker: In August 2014, Jo Ellen Parker arrived in Pittsburgh and became the 10th president of Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh and the first woman to lead the museums.
She came to Carnegie Museums from Sweet Briar College, where she served as president from 2009-2014. Before that she was Executive Director of the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and President of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA), a consortium of 12 selective liberal arts colleges. Dr. Parker served her alma mater, Bryn Mawr College, as a faculty member and an academic affairs and student life administrator. There, she taught Victorian literature, women’s literature and English composition while serving in the dean’s office. She earned her A.B. in English from Bryn Mawr, her M.A. in English from the University of Kansas, and her Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, writing her dissertation on George Eliot.
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