History Colorado- Week 4- Ashley Duarte

 Week 4!!

07/24: Hello all! Today was not crazy eventful for me. I continued to research ideas and logistics for an event with Blaxplanation and I continued to organize the photos and descriptions for the Displaced Aurarian Project exhibit. Organizing all these photos has been pretty time consuming because it is a pretty long process of cropping and writing the stories of the community members. 

me

scanning consent forms

Besides building my organization and research skills through these projects, I also had the chance to attend a virtual Intern Cohort with some amazing people that work at the museum! The panel included Emily Dobish the Director of Volunteer Engagement,  Dr. Erin Bornemann, Director of Information Management for the Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Kimberly Kronwall, Exhibits and Loan Registrar, Tamara Trujillo, Hands-On History Program Director, Terri Gentry, Engagement Manager for Black Communities, and María Islas-López, Museum of Memory Manager (who I have been working with for the Displaced Aurarian Project). Other interns joined and we had to come with a couple questions prepared. It was a great networking and informative opportunity! I had some really thoughtful questions prepared and I honestly owe it all to YAP. They prepared me on how to navigate netoworking and I felt extremly prepared because it was not my first time! It was really interesting hearing about their careers and all of their advice was very helpful. 


07/25: Today I had my college orientation so I did not go to the museum! I had a really great day though and got to learn about so many different clubs and organizations that provide so much support for students! I also made some friends in my group and it really was like a throwback to YAP week ;'). I was nervous at first but left the day feeling confident and excited for school to start! I also registered for classes and thanks to the help from the YAP support staff panel, beforehand I looked up what classes I wanted to take and what kind of schedule I wanted and looked up every professor on ratemyprofessor before choosing one ;). Thanks YAP support staff.
walking to check in for orientation
07/26: Today was also not super eventful it was a lot of just computer work again but the highlight of my day was going to the weekly education staff check in meeting. I look forward to this meeting bc the education staff sort of just check in on eachother, give shoutouts, and bring up any upcoming events that they would like to share. This week though we got yummy cookies and we were celebrating Brooke because she is about to have her baby and leave for maternity leave! We are all very happy for her.


More Displaced Aurarian exhibit work
We <3 Brooke


Congrats Brooke!

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