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
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
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
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.
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 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.
Assistant professor of Critical Heritage, Innovation & Curation at Tilburg University. Her research is focused on 19th-century girlhood, particularly girls’ writing cultures.
Assistant Professor of History at Ohio State Universtiy, specializing in modern Europe, gender history, and the history of childhood.
Londoner obsessed with television, books, traveling, and art. Working as a journalist in London and pursuing a life of cultural and geographical exploration.
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.
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
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...
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...
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...
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