Meet Our Team

Girl Museum was founded by our Head Girl, Ashley E. Remer, and is overseen by a Board of Directors. We also consult with our Advisory Board of scholars and professionals, who help advance our mission and contribute to our programs. Our all-volunteer team is organized into two tiers: our Senior Staff (long-term volunteers dedicated to specific programs or projects) and our Junior Girls & Boys (interns and volunteers).

Ashley E. Remer

Ashley E. Remer

Founder and Head Girl

Ashley E. Remer is an art historian by trade and a global citizen by experience. She has collaborated with scholars, educators, artists, NGOs, and girls around the world to raise awareness and promote change for girls’ rights. Through Girl Museum, she has developed a girl-centered feminist framework for looking at arts and culture. Currently working on her PhD at the Australian National University, her research is focused on representations of girls in art and how they are interpreted in public museums. She asserts that work to de-misogynize art history and museums is as essential as de-colonizing them.

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is comprised of the members below. We meet four times per year to oversee the budget and management as implemented by the Head Girl. Interested in being a board member? Contact us to discuss this unique opportunity to help us fulfill our mission and increase girls’ representation around the world.

Mercedes Pino

Mercedes Pino

At a very early age, I would line up all of my dolls and play teacher. As a first-generation Cuban American, my parents always encouraged me to be the best at whatever I wanted to be. So I studied to be a teacher and a lawyer. Somewhere along the way I mixed the two and decided to work at a law school. Now my job is to encourage students to be the best whatever they decide to be.

Teri R. Abstein

Teri R. Abstein

Teri is a pragmatic collector and an obsessive organizer. These attributes lend themselves handily to museum work. She landed in her museum vocation almost by accident through fortuitous decisions and the faith of others. To both fate and certitude she will be eternally grateful for they have allowed her to ‘play with the stuff’ and ‘share with the kids’.

Senior Staff

Our senior staff is comprised of long-term volunteers who have dedicated themselves to our cause. Many began as interns who showed the drive, creativity, and dedication that help us do great work.

Claire Amundson
Curator

Welsh world traveler passionate about making heritage accessible to all. Fascinated with history and music, and loves learning about different cultures both past and present.

Amber Barnes
Junior Curator

Amber holds an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, and a BA (Hons) in Visual Culture from the University of Brighton. Specializing in 18th to 20th century British art, she has collaborated on a number of exhibitions.

Lois Burke
Resident Scholar

Assistant professor of Critical Heritage, Innovation & Curation at Tilburg University. Her research is focused on 19th-century girlhood, particularly girls’ writing cultures.

Elizabeth Dillenburg
Resident Scholar

Assistant Professor of History at Ohio State Universtiy, specializing in modern Europe, gender history, and the history of childhood.

Scarlett Evans
Manager, Contemporary Art

Londoner obsessed with television, books, traveling, and art. Working as a journalist in London and pursuing a life of cultural and geographical exploration. 

Hillary Rose
Education Advisor

History and biology teacher with a Master's in Museum Studies, working in various museums and education from age 3 through university. Enjoys traveling with her husband and playing with her two huskies.

Yuwen Zhang
Education Assistant

Born and raised in Anyang, China, Yuwen holds an Master's in Education and works as an educational designer in Canada. Her interests include children's literature, gender identity, and creating digital safe spaces for girls.

Junior Girls & Boys

Our team would not be complete without our wonderful interns. The Junior Girls and Junior Boys, as we call them, have produced incredible work for us – much of which focuses on their own research interests and career goals.

Our interns hail from all around the world, and many have gone on to pursue wonderful museum careers, advanced degrees, and families. Learn more about them and what brings them to Girl Museum in the blogs below.

Meet the Interns: Sabrina L. Sheridan

Meet the Interns: Sabrina L. Sheridan

My name is Sabrina Sheridan and I live in New Jersey in the United States. I just finished my sophomore year at Cornell University where I am double majoring in History and Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies and minoring in Deaf Studies. I grew up in New Jersey...

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Meet the Volunteers: Ada Kalu

Meet the Volunteers: Ada Kalu

Hola hola (that’s all the Spanish I speak). I’m Ada. From and frequent returnee to Nigeria, and I currently live and work in London as an arts administrator and writer. As of January, I’m officially a two-degree hottie and heavily considering a PhD in Museum Education...

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Meet the Interns: Glafira Soldatova

Meet the Interns: Glafira Soldatova

Country: Netherlands Short bio: I am a student in the International Master’s programme “Children’s Literature, Media and Culture”. During the semester abroad at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, I am focusing on the transcultural dimensions of children’s...

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Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board is comprised of internationally renowned women in academia and the museum world. They help to produce projects, advise on research interests, and spread the word about our museum.

Mary Case, Qm2

Dr. Rachel Devlin, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University

Dr. Catherine Driscoll, Associate Professor, Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney

Dr. Miriam Forman-Brunell, Professor of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Elaine Heumann Gurian,  The Museum Group

Dr. Mary Celeste Kearney, Associate Professor, Department of Film, Television, and Theatre, University of Notre Dame

Dr. Claudia Mitchell, Professor, Faculty of Education, McGill University

Dr. Ilana Nash, Assistant Professor of English and Women’s Studies, Western Michigan University

Dr. Jacqueline Reid-Walsh, Associate Professor of Education, Penn State University

Dr. Kelly Schrum, Associate Professor, Center for History and New Media, George Mason University

Dr. Lynne Vallone, Professor of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University

Dr. Valerie Walkerdine, Research Professor, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University

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