Mission: The Tenement Museum tells the uniquely American

stories of immigrants, migrants, and refugees in the ongoing

creation of our nation
Vision: A society that embraces and values the fundamental
role of immigration in the evolving American identity.

Tenement Museum
All-staff meeting
July 16, 2019
Agenda • New staff
• Update from IDEA council
• FY19 recap and FY20 Goals
• Trivia time!
 •Linda Wolf- Educator
•Nick Lockyer- Educator
•Sallie Bieterman- Educator
•Lucy Piccochi- Educator
•Brian Burns- Educator
•Alisha Espinosa- Educator
Welcome! •Camila Rivadeneyra- Educator
•Lily Lipman- Educator
•Maggie Murphy- PT Visitor Sales Associate
•Tia Bangura- PT Membership Desk Representative
IDEA Council
Charter & Mission
Charter

IDEA Council is a steering body established to surface and

prioritize recommendations, identify and drive solutions to
create a diverse, inclusive, equitable and accessible
environment.

Mission

Shift the culture of the museum to consider IDEA (Inclusion,

Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) in all of its practices,
processes and policies.
Who We Are

Anne Brenner Jas Chana

Cassie Peña Krysta Opharrow
Daryl Hamilton Laura Lee
Ellysheva Bunge-Zeira Michelle Moon
Erika Pinedo Pedro Garcia
Ian Patrick SJ Costello
All-Staff Trainings Sept. 16, 17 & 18

 Judging vs Joining

 Inclusion Definition

 Conscious Actions for

Inclusion

 Interaction Safety
Our Process

• Working Groups create Project Plans

• Share with Senior Management Team for

approval

• Share with Department Heads for review

• IDEA Council implements Project Plan

Gender Inclusion Working Group
Gender Inclusion Project:
Creating a gender-inclusive institution for both employees and visitors, so
those of all gender identities will feel welcome and supported at the
Tenement Museum.
• Staff training around the importance of gender inclusion, creating a resource
library for future staff education, connecting to affinity groups to share
information (POC and WARA caucuses, PAC, etc.)

• Creating policy around the communication of pronouns for current and new
hires, transitioning, and support networks for challenging interactions.

• Evaluating both internal and external documents and content for gender
inclusive language, and making changes accordingly.

• Evaluating the campus (i.e. signage) for a gender-inclusive environment, and

making changes accordingly.
Accessibility Working Group
Accessibility Baseline Project:

Creating a Museum-wide accessibility standard to

ensure all content is accessible to a wide audience

o Establishing a project plan

o Finalizing the guiding document
o Planning for implementation
- Training
- Future growth
Equitable Hiring Working Group
• Work to provide greater access to employment at
the Museum by removing barriers, creating
pipelines to opportunities, and community
building.

• Develop metrics to measure success, which will

inform goals and continued actions.
Community Building Working Group
Community Building Project:
Create ways to strengthen the Tenement Museum culture
through ensuring the staff’s well-being and morale is a
priority.

• July 17th - First working meeting to determine a proposed

project plan
• Review project plan with IDEA Council members
• Update the museum on next steps.

”When people honor each other, there is a trust established that leads to
synergy, interdependence, and deep respect. Both parties make decisions
and choices based on what is right, what is best, and what is valued most
highly.” – Blaine Lee

Working Group: Erika, Laura, Daryl, Jas, SJ, Cassie, Krysta *assembled June 26th
How To Reach Us

IDEA@tenement.org
FY19 Recap and FY20 Goals
 • FY19 Highlights:
• New lens across programs – like Names
project quilt, Talks with MAP, SBS popup
• Launched efforts for Black Migrations
Tell stories of walking tour with NPS
and to a • Museum Network project: Promising
broader range initial outreach to partners
of people who
• FY20 Goals:
shape the
• Strengthen institutional partnerships
American
identity • Launch networks of museums doing
immigration-related programming and
plan traveling festival event
• Contine to expand program narratives
Wing Luke Museum

Washington State Historical Society

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Arab American
National Museum
Chicago History Museum
Illinois Holocaust Museum Connecticut Historical Society

History Nebraska Tenement Museum

Colorado History Center Ellis Island

Museum of Chinese in
Americas
Oakland Museum
Virginia Historical Society
Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Tennessee State Museum

Levine Museum of the New South

Japanese American National Museum Atlanta History Center

New American Museum

Georgia Historical Society

Florida Historical Society

 • FY19 Highlights:
• Record visitorship – 281,812
• Curriculum developed – tested in schools,
awaiting graphic design
Achieve • Expanded digital offerings
dramatic • FY20 Goals:
growth in • Expand youth-oriented programming
reach and • Expand 4th grade adoption
impact • Launch distance learning
• Reach a broader audience via digital
content
• Tenement Talks videos
 • FY19 Highlights:
• First season of How to be American – nearly
Become a 70,000 downloads so far and strong critical
leading voice response
offering • New website launched – continuing to grow
historical in our capacity to adjust and expand
context on
• Strong press placements in print op-eds and
immigration,
video partnerships
migration and
American • FY20 Goals:
identity • Develop two seasons of podcast
• Position the TM as a thought leader in
immigration debate
 • FY19 Highlights:
• Variety of efforts completed and underway
to better define and structure our
Continue interpretive paradigm, continuously manage
providing a content, improve visitor communications,
best-in-class and strengthen engagement opportunities
visitor • Staff investments include new full-time
experience educator roles, IDEA council, benefit
changes
• 97 project planning – scoping complete and
operational outline in place
 • FY20 Goals:
• Prepare for 97 renovations across issues of
construction and preservation, tour
management, and audience communication
• Meet financial plan
Continue
• Strengthen relationships with individual
providing a
best-in-class supporters to advance the TM mission and help
visitor drive revenue growth
experience • Build a more positive working environment with
focus on D&I, benefits, and establishing a CBA
• Develop clear program and evaluation strategy
incorporating audience centered practice
Trivia at the Tenement
It’s time to play...

TWENTY
TENEMENT
QUESTIONS!!
 HOW TO PLAY! 1

There are three Teams: Red, Yellow, and Blue

Each person should have been randomly assigned a
team color when they entered.
For every Question, two players, each from a different
Team, will go head-to-head at the bell-stand.
 HOW TO PLAY! 2

The first person to ring the bell and answer correctly

wins the round. The other player is replaced by
someone new -- from whichever Team did not just
have a player at bell-stand.
A winning player can stay at the bell-stand or choose
to have someone else from their Team replace them.
 3
HOW TO PLAY!

A Team can not have two Educators in a row play

back-to-back for their team.

Every three correct answers will advance play to the

NEXT LEVEL OF 97 Orchard!
GROUND FLOOR
2nd FLOOR
3rd FLOOR
4th FLOOR
5th Floor!
 HOW TO WIN...

The first Team to make it to the “Roof” of 97 Orchard

Street is the winner!

If we do not make it to the Roof, the Team with the

longest winning streak is the winner!!
NOTE ON THE QUESTIONS

Trivia Questions will relate to multiple aspects of

Museum operations; less than half of the Questions
will come from tour content.

And, hidden somewhere in the “Building” is....

a LIGHTNING ROUND
 QUALIFYING ROUND!
The category is...
 QUALIFYING ROUND!
The category is…
“Dough-nations”
???
GROUND FLOOR You will be Victoria-us!
2nd FLOOR Baldizzi-Peasy!
3rd FLOOR Keen as a Levine!
4th FLOOR Just a little Moore...
5th Floor!
(Beware of Ghosts)
YOU MADE IT TO THE ROOF OF 97 ORCHARD!