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Session: Breaking the Ice: Creating Inroads Between Communities in the Past and PresentMonday, April 711 AM - 12:15 PM Location: Ithaca Downtown Conference Center About: How do you engage and connect people with history, culture, and traditions they have no previous exposure to? In this session, Jaime Cohen and Scott Brevda, Senior Managers of Education at the Museum at Eldridge Street, will discuss ways in which they, through points of interconnection, humor, and becoming learners themselves, deepen cultural understanding between their visitors, their landmark synagogue, and its immigrant congregation from a century ago.Presenters: Scott Brevda, Senior Manager of Education & Accessibility, Museum at Eldridge Street Scott Brevda is an experienced historian and museum educator. As the Senior Manager for Education and Accessibility at the Museum at Eldridge Street, Scott develops and leads tours and programs for schools, private groups, the public, people with disabilities, and the Museum’s annual afterschool program. Scott served as a Senior Educator at the Tenement Museum and holds a B.A. and M.A. in History from Fordham University. |
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