{"id":6297,"date":"2024-01-04T18:31:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhd.org\/?post_type=team&#038;p=6297"},"modified":"2024-01-04T18:31:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T18:31:35","slug":"sarah-pharaon","status":"publish","type":"team","link":"https:\/\/nhd.org\/en\/team\/sarah-pharaon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Pharaon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>Where do you currently live?<\/strong><br>South Orange, NJ<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What is your current occupation?<\/strong><br>Senior Director, International Coalition of Sites of Conscience<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What school did you attend while participating in NHD?<\/strong><br>Wyoming Valley West Middle School (Kingston, PA); Wyoming Valley West High School (Plymouth, PA)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What college did you attend?<\/strong><br>BA American Studies, Franklin and Marshall College; MA History Museum Studies, Cooperstown Graduate Program (SUNY Oneonta)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>Who were your teachers?<\/strong><br>Art Valli; Mary Jean Tarrantini<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What years and in what category did you participate in NHD?<\/strong><br>93-94 (Group Project); 91-92 (Individual Project); 90-91 (Individual Project)<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>What are a few of your favorite or defining moments from your NHD experience?<\/strong><br>Digging through records at our local Historical Society; coming up with creative visual presentations; my brother helping me draw March of Dimes posters for my Salk vaccine exhibit; exchanging pins at nationals; awaiting results; and walking into the Smithsonian for the first time<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\"><strong>How did NHD help you after high school?<\/strong><br>NHD taught me research and presentation skills and began my love of local history. 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Any particular challenges, stories, or achievements?<\/strong><br>&#8220;At the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, I direct work on issues of race, education equity and incarceration including From Brown v Board to Ferguson, a three-year collaboration between ten historic sites and their community partners to create dynamic youth public engagement programs that foster much-needed community dialogue on race, education equity and incarceration in the context of civil rights history. From 2010 &#8211; 2014, I led twenty five U.S. museums in the National Dialogues on Immigration project, an IMLS and NEH-funded initiative which linked sites across the country in hosting dialogues on contemporary immigration issues affecting their communities (www.dialoguesonimmigration.org).<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"appear-on-scroll\">Prior to this, I worked as Director of Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and was the founding curator of the Arab American National Museum (AANM.) 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