Staff

A white-skinned femme with long blonde hair smiles into the camera.
Katie Covey
Director of Public Engagement and Learning
A woman wearing a salmon pink shirt and chin-length salt and pepper hair smiles while looking to the right of the camera.
Marlaine Cox
Director of Security and Building Operations
A medium-brown skinned femme with long dark brown hair smiles with mouth closed at the camera. They wear a black and white striped shirt and beaded earrings.
Kendra Greendeer
Ihlenfeld Curator of Collaborative and Community Exhibitions
Female presenting person with long brown hair and a dark sweater smiles into the camera
Emily Huemann Xiong
Director of Development
Ty Jesse PFP Stand In
Jesse
Preparator
A femme-presenting person with electric blue hair, light brown skin, and a black tshirt smiles broadly into the camera.
Floris Lafontant
Collections Associate
A femme presenting person with light brown skin wears a green and blue tie-dye scarf to cover their hair, a bright pink turtleneck shirt, and red lipstick. Madeeha smiles softly into the camera.
Madeeha Lamoreaux
Digital Content Specialist
WAM's shiny stainless steel building facade
Sam Larom
Visitor Experience Coordinator
A light-skinned femme with shoulder-length strawberry blonde hair and a terracotta colored sweater smiles into the camera.
Julia Laws
Exhibitions Registrar
A light-skinned femme with red hair tied back away from her face smiles with teeth, into the camera. Mollierae wears glasses and a flower earring in one ear and a silver hand earring in the other.
MollieRae Miller
Assistant Registrar
A older light skinned femme with dark brown, shoulder-length hair smiles circumspectly at the camera. Diane is wearing dark blue glasses, large golden and minimal rectangular earrings, and a navy blue crew-neck sweater.
Diane Mullin
Senior Curator
A mature femme with red-black hair in a tight ponytail smiles serenely to the camera. Alejandra wears large black, cat-eye glasses wit black gems on the rims, large silver earrings, and a black pleated button down shirt.
Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez
Director
A light-skinned nonbinary person with medium-length brown hair and gold-rimmed glasses.
Jude Pettit
Lisa & E. Gerald O’Brien Curatorial Fellow
A light skinned femme wearing a green, tweed blazer smiles broadly into the camera. Rosa has medium brown, long wavy hair with highlights and large mod earrings.
Rosa Raarup
Development Associate
A white-skinned femme with short blonde hair smiles broadly at the camera.
Maggie Ready
Events Associate
A light brown skin femme smile broadly into the camera. She has curly dark brown hair and half-rimmed tortoise shell glasses and wears a black button up shirt.
Rosa Corral
Senior Registrar
Susannah is wearing a gray wrap dress, a delicate pearl necklace, and a necklace that says "merde" in rounded, fancy script. She has light skin, horn rimmed glasses and dark, shoulder-length, brown hair and smiles broadly into the camera.
Susannah Schouweiler
Director of Communications and Marketing
A non-binary/femme presenting person with long auburn hair smiles broadly into the camera. Relle wears an earring with dangling pearls and an eyeball encrusted in gold.
Relle Sonnenschein
Events Manager
Mary Abbott Swans (an abstract art piece with large swathes of teal and white).
Reggie Spanier
Preparator
Femme presenting person with dark gray hair tied back into a ponytail, smiles with teeth into the camera. Gwen is wearing a bright pink scarf tied around her neck and a black shirt.
Gwen Sutter
Associate Director
WAM's shiny stainless steel building facade
Megan VanDeWalle
Building and Technical Operations Assistant
A femme presenting person with medium brown skin and black, shoulder-length locs smiles broadly at the camera. Ricki is wearing crystal butterfly earrings, a marbled green and brown shirt, and a WAM-branded lanyard.
Ricki Williams
Public Engagement & Learning Coordinator

Colleagues Advisory Board

Paul Acito
CEO, Lyftbridge

Bridget Anderson
WAM Collective | Student

Colene Blank 
Vice President and Associate Chief IP Counsel, 3M Innovative Properties Co.

Jane Blocker 
Professor, Art History

Prasad Boradkar
Dean, College of Design, University of Minnesota

Anika Byrne
WAM Collective | Student

Gary Christenson 
Former Chief Medical Officer, Boynton Health, UMN (retired)

Dan Gjelten
Writer and Community Volunteer

Aphrodite HItzidou
Community Volunteer

Cindy Ihlenfeld 
Artist & Community Volunteer

Sara Janz 
Ameriprise

Dennis Kim 
President, EVS Engineering

Dwight Lewis
Assistant Professor of Philosphy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Sergio Manancero 
President & Taproom Manager at La Doña Brewing

Jennings Mergenthal
Community Engagement Specialist, Science Museum of Minnesota

Herman Milligan
Managing Partner, The Fulton Group LLC

Eric Newman 
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, UMN

Phil Rosenbloom 
Artist

Shirin Saadat 
Community Volunteer | Chair

Eun-Kyung Suh
Professor of Art and Design, University of Minnesota Duluth

Kay Thomas 
International Education Administrator and Consultant

Amelious Whyte 
Interim Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, College of Liberal Arts

Penny Winton (Lifetime Member) 
Community Volunteer

Alejandra Peña Gutiérrez (Ex Officio) 
Director, Weisman Art Museum

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