The Block is dedicated to advancing the museum field. Learn more about the people, positions, and departments that contribute to The Block.
Staff Professional Activities:
2024-2025
Corinne Granof, Academic Curator • Guest Speaker, NU’s School of Professional Studies - Museum Certificate: "The Journey of a Museum Exhibition: From Vision to Reality"
Malia Haines-Stewart, Associate Film Programmer • Juror for Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival Festival 2025 • Mentor for Center for Civic Engagement’s NU Public Interest Program 2025
Teagan Harris, Terra Engagement Fellow • Essay for Choose Chicago Magazine, "Where to see Indigenous art in Zhegagoynak this winter" • Affiliate appointment with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research • AAMG Conference Speaker: You Have the Floor: Creating Spaces for Communities to Gather Inside of the Museum • Indigeneity and the Arts Conference Speaker: Decolonizing Exhibits and the Archives • CAICC Weaving Worlds Conference Speaker: Collaborating x Communities: Anisinabe Waki-Aztlán: 1977 to Turtle Island Today
Isabella Ko, Engagement Coordinator and Educator • Evanston Arts Council 2025 Cultural Fund Grant Reviewer • Northwestern Women's Center Advisory Board Member
Michael Metzger, Pick-Laudati Academic Curator for Cinema and Media Arts • Humanities Council, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities at Northwestern • “Anticipation of a Remembrance: The Politics of Continuity in Indigenous Found-Footage and Archival Cinema,” essay published in Temporal Territories: An Anthology on Indigenous Experimental Cinema (Light Industry, 2025) • Participant, “Hosting Good Q&As” panel at IND/EX Independent Film Exhibition conference, Chicago, June 2024 • Instructor, “Art of the Real: Documentary Film History and Criticism” course, Department of Radio/Television/Film, Northwestern University, Winter 2024
Erin Northington, Susan and Stephen Wilson Associate Director, Campus & Community Education and Engagement • Guest Speaker, Photography Network Symposium, Tucson, AZ, October 2024 • Participant (with Kathleen Berzock), "Honoring our Partners" - Northwestern Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion (OIDI)
Elisa Quinlin, Director of Development • Northwestern Alumni Relations and Development Diversity Council • Board of Directors for Makom Solel Lakeside Congregation (Highland Park, IL)
Margaret Sagan, Assistant Director of Public Programs • Association of Northwestern University Women