Museum Workers & Community Care: Solidarity, Safety, and Institutional Responses to Immigration Enforcement

​This session centers the role of museum professionals in responding to immigration-related threats and intimidation, emphasizing solidarity with immigrant communities and the challenges faced by staff in maintaining trust and care. The session will address how museum workers and museums can adopt care-centered strategies, including public statements, partnerships with immigrant support networks, adaptive programming, and internal policies grounded in solidarity, while engaging the general public around historic context to the current crisis and ways to document what communities are facing.

​Speaker: Sara Phalen