Staff
Alice Apley
Executive Director
Frank Aveni
Director of Media & Design
Seth Kurke
Program Manager, Collections & Outreach
Elías Mendoza Vivas
Video Specialist
Claire Ogden
Filmmaker Services Coordinator
Laura Francis
Bookeeper
To get in touch with DER staff, visit our contact page
Board of Directors
Ilisa Barbash
Curator of Visual Anthropology, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Sue Cabezas
President, DER Board of Directors
Executive Vice-President, Applewood Books
Peter Dow
Co-Founder, First Hand Learning, Inc.
Former Director of Education, Buffalo Museum of Science
Ryan Evans
Senior Service Designer, Tufts University
Karma Foley
Archivist, Smithsonian Channel
Jayasinhji Jhala
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Temple University
Mary Anne Saul
Secretary, DER Board of Directors
Retired Social Studies Teacher, North Reading High School
Toby Alice Volkman
Former Director of Policy Initiatives, Henry Luce Foundation
Advisors
Patsy Asch
Glorianna Davenport
Steven Feld
Faye Ginsburg
Lance Pierce
