I am a memory
keeper.

You cannot outrun the past.

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I once saw a horror film about two siblings from the Russian tundra who were forced to return to their haunted childhood home. They arrived on a rain-driven night, searching for something they could not outrun but did not want to find. In the end, the unstable foundations of the house consumed them. They were swallowed by their own ghosts.

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Such is the weight of memory. The more you try to escape the past, the heavier it becomes when it ultimately resurfaces. This reality is true of individual histories as well as shared national ones. But the past does not have to consume us. There is power in acknowledging historical truths, even when they are difficult to hear. History is an inheritance meant to be passed on to the next generation. 

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Memory-keeping is the process through which communities and institutions preserve, interpret, and confront the past in ways that deepen understanding, shape public memory, and help society move forward.

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​About Me

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For more than twenty years, I have interpreted memory and history across generations through international research, exhibit curation, and the development of new educational programs.

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My professional affiliations include the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Lost Shtetl Museum, Vilna Gaon Museum of Jewish History, and the Holocaust Center of Florida. I hold a Ph.D. from Indiana University and an M.A. from George Washington University.

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Contact me for strategic exhibit and education consulting, especially related to genocide and Holocaust history.