Lisa Falk

Lisa Falk is an educator, photographer and writer specializing in cultural topics. She has nearly 25 years experience developing and producing informal learning programs for cultural institutions, including having worked for the Smithsonian Institution. She has designed many multicultural programs that integrate visual and performing arts with humanities content for museums and educational institutions across the country. She has trained teachers and students in how to do community documentation and exhibition projects in the Washington, DC area, New Mexico, and Bermuda. She was a guest lecturer on museum education theory and practices for the United States Information Agency in Costa Rica and El Salvador.

Falk works at the University of Arizona as director of education at Arizona State Museum (ASM) and as a teaching affiliate with the Language, Reading and Culture Department of the College of Education. At ASM, she is responsible for public and school programs and materials that interpret the museum’s exhibitions, collections, and research areas. Falk is author of Cultural Reporter, a student resource book for documenting and presenting about cultural traditions. She is co-author of Bermuda Connections Cultural Resource Guide published by the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, a copy of which is in every classroom in Bermuda.

Falk is an award-winning photographer of people and places. Her work has been displayed in over 40 shows and published in books, magazines, newspapers and on the web. She holds a BA in anthropology from Oberlin College (1982) and a MAT in museum education from George Washington University (1987).

Uaporn Ang Robinson

Uaporn Ang Robinson has been working as a Youth's Program Coordinator with the Division of Continuing Education, a part of the Community College of Baltimore County since August of 2000. Prior to her work in Baltimore, she spent a few years in Thailand where she became an editor-in-chief for a bilingual (Thai-English) children's publication.

Robinson worked as an ESL teacher in various Southeast Asian refugee camps in Thailand from 1979-1985 before moving to the US with her family in 1985. She then taught English as well as job counseling with the Indochinese Community Center in WDC and for Refugee Education and Employment Program in Arlington, Virginia.

In 1987 Robinson received an MAT in Museum Education from GWU. After graduation, she worked as a Southeast Asian Project Coordinator for the outreach project “New Americans-New Challenges” at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. She designed this program to promote understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity between the American public and the newly-arrived Southeast Asian refugees and immigrants in Washington metropolitan area. She wrote Southeast Asian New Year Celebrations: An Instructional Guide which was disseminated to schools in DC, Maryland and Virginia. Robinson also worked at the Office of Folklife Programs, Smithsonian Institution on two programs for the Festival of American Folklife, one on Indonesia and another on Thailand.