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Cultural Sustainability Faculty: Connecting You to Your Next Career

Wednesday, May 8, 2019 at 5:00 PM until 6:00 PM

The M.A. in Cultural Sustainability faculty are not only content experts in the field of Cultural Sustainability, they are community activists, arts leaders, practitioners, and museum professionals connected to an international network of organizations and communities. They will guide you through the content, help you frame your career goals, and connect you to other professionals in your area of interest. 

Join us on May 8th to meet some of our faculty and hear about their work, ask questions, and learn more about how the MACS program can help you craft your journey!


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Participating faculty include: 

Elizabeth Hanna Rubio is teaching our newest class on Immigrant Rights Activism. She currently works with Korean American immigrant justice workers, exploring how these organizers advocate for undocumented Korean and other Asian Americans as they navigate solidarity-building with their Black and Latinx counterparts. Elizabeth worked as an immigrant rights and tenant community organizer at the D.C.-area immigrant justice organization, CASA de Maryland. At CASA, where she worked with undocumented tenants living in precarious housing units to mobilize against unscrupulous landlords.  She also developed “Yo Decido,” a holistic support and legal advocacy program for undocumented survivors of domestic and sexual violence.  Prior to that, Elizabeth conducted ethnographic fieldwork with Kolla indigenous communities in Northern Argentina as they attempted to build an autonomous rural communitarian tourism circuit to contest the influx of a mass tourism industry attempting to coopt their lands and cultural symbols.  



Selina Morales co-teaches Cultural Partnerships and will be teaching Non-Profit Leadership this year.  She is an invited speaker on social justice and folklore, public interest folklore, Latino folklore, folklore and education and other topics. Areas of expertise include public folklore theory and practice, urban folklore, Latino folklore, and folk healing and belief.  Selina is currently the Director of the Philadelphia Folklore Project (PFP) where she tends the mission and vision of the organization. Before joining PFP, Selina worked at Traditional Arts Indiana, Indiana's statewide folklife organization, where she conducted folklife research, developed public programs, and curated and coordinated exhibitions. She served as a guest curator at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures where she curated Botanica: A Pharmacy for the Soul, an innovative installation drawing on a 163-piece ethnographic collection documenting Botanica practices in the United States.



Dr. Michael Shepard is an anthropologist who teaches for both the Master's in Cultural Sustainability and Master's in Environmental Studies programs at Goucher College. His courses include Language Preservation, Culture & Calamity, as well as Environment, Culture and Community.  His research focuses on documentation and dissemination of endangered Indigenous languages, cultural resource management, treaty rights, sovereignty and environmental preservation. He specializes in linguistic anthropology, ethnography, applied research methods and the application of collaborative Internet technologies. Dr. Shepard also supports online course design and development in Goucher's Welch Center as an Instructional Designer.





Dr. Lisa (Elizabeth) Rathje co-teaches Cultural Partnerships and teaches our Cultural Documentation Field Lab. Rathje has multiple film credits and has served as oral history advisor and videographer for an on-going research project on Afro-Cuban artist Nancy Morejón and others of her generation in Havana, Cuba.  Lisa is currently Executive Director of Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education where she is responsible for overseeing the organizational administration, programs, and strategic plan. She co-edits the peer-reviewed, multi-media Journal of Folklore and Education. She also consults nationally specializing in professional development for educators and teaching artists, as well as the topics of cultural documentation, public programming, non-profit planning, and applying cultural knowledge in social justice efforts. She previously served as Director of Folklife Programs with Company of Folk in Chicago, Illinois (2011-2016), where she was responsible for planning and directing projects focused on identifying, preserving, and promoting to the general public, folk and traditional arts

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