8:30am - Reflect Forward: Annual Meeting 2024 (sale period expired)
Conner Prairie has been recognized as a Site of Conscience since 2019, one of over 250 members across 65 countries. The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience (ICSC) is the only global network of historic sites, museums, and memory initiatives that connects past struggles to today’s movements for human rights. ICSC turns memory into action.
Linda Norris, Senior Specialist in Methodology and Practice, plays a key role in ICSC’s capacity-building work conducting trainings and workshops for museums, historic sites and memory initiatives including the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Conner Prairie, the War Childhood Museum, and the National Human Rights Museum of Taiwan. Linda is an international leader in facilitating conversation and action surrounding the ways creativity can transform museums, shape more compelling narratives and create deeper, more inclusive community connections. She writes and speaks widely about the ways that museums, historic sites, and memory initiatives can create more just futures. Linda holds an M.A. in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program and is the co-author of Creativity in Museum Practice.