Kirsten McNally

Kirsten is an educator, artist, and administrator residing in New York City, where she is the Manager of Integration Programs at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum. She has worked in both school and museum settings, and hopes to create and sustain bridges between the two. In her current role, she works with teens, K-12 educators, and college students to integrate design into their practices and classrooms. Prior to this, she worked as the Director of Museum Programming at Children’s Museum of the Arts, as well as PS 20 Clinton Hill in Brooklyn, New York. She has a BFA in Photography and MAT in Art Education from Rhode Island School of Design, as well as an M.S. Ed. in Leadership in Museum Education from Bank Street Graduate School of Education.