Critical Futures, Series 2
THE FUTURE OF...
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In this series, we chat with experts in various sectors to learn about what they are doing to shift the critical now for a radical new future. No matter the specific topic, all of our guests will prompt you to reflect: what world do we want to live in? What world are we fighting to build? And how will we build it in just ways?
11 November 2024
Series 2, Episode 8: "The Future of the Un-Museum"
Featuring Monica O. Montgomery
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About Our Guests

Monica O. Montgomery is the Founding Director of DiasporaDNA Story Center: a cultural center encouraging visitors to explore origin stories and collective memories from the art, history, and lives of the global majority. She possesses two decades of experience in museums, public history, and arts administration. She consults with creative milieu of cultural organizations leading public engagement towards ecologies of promise. As an independent curator, she produces social change exhibits with Formerly Incarcerated Renaissance Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Portland Art Museum, South African Embassy, UMMA, and the Brooklyn Museum. She stewards the Montgomery Collection, an archive of global majority diasporic, history, ephemera, photos, antiquarian books, and art.
Highlighted Work
- Smithsonian Exhibition: FUTURES

Website: https://www.diasporadna.org/
Additional Credits
This episode was produced as part of an ongoing series titled “THE FUTURE OF…”. In this series, we chat with experts from various sectors to learn about what they are doing to shift the critical now for a radical new future.
Episode Host: Amber Johnson | Director of Community Engagement, IHJE.
Audio Production: KJ Schaeffner | Web Developer + Designer, IHJE.
Podcast Artwork: Wriply M. Bennet.
Theme Music: Resilient Zone/Floting via Adobe Stock.
