MLI Peer Mentors
The peer mentors program focuses on developing a collaborative learning relationship between MLI alumni and current MLI fellows in which both parties benefit from growing and sustaining a collegial relationship. Peer mentors bring their experience of the MLI framework and their expertise as executive leaders of top institutions. Through a series of one-on-one meetings with fellows, peer mentors offer support on leadership development plans and contextualizing assessment reports, and integrating curriculum ideas strategically for each fellow’s role and organizational setting.
“Mentoring GLI fellows gave me the opportunity to being exposed to a variety of institutional challenges in various settings, and to analyze how fellows with different skill sets and modes of thinking approached them. Challenging them – and myself – led to a fruitful bidirectional mentoring process.” – Jorrit Britschgi, GLI 2017
“I was inspired by the fellows I worked with—very talented, engaged and articulate professionals. Working as a peer mentor is a wonderful way to reconnect with the GLI experience. I also made great contacts with other peer mentors from different GLI cohorts.” – Mary Kershaw, GLI 2015
Ramona Austin
Senior Curator
Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Gallerie at Old Dominion University
GLI Class of 2014
Genny Boccardo-Dubey
Chief Operating OfficerChief Operating Officer
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
GLI Class of 2017
Francesca Casadio
Grainger Executive Director of Conservation and Science
The Art Institute of Chicago
GLI Class of 2016
Abby Chen
Head of Contemporary Art
Asian Art Museum
San Francisco, California USA
GLI Class of 2016
Scott Cooper
President and CEO
Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University
GLI Class of 2015
Laurel Robinson Dickow
Director, Programs
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
GLI Class of 2019
Meixia Guo
Deputy Director of Publicity and Education Department
Researcher
Palace Museum
GLI Class of 2014
Tim Hallman
Director of Communications & Business Development
Asian Art Museum
GLI Class of 2008
Kathleen Howe
Sarah Rempel and Herbert S. Rempel ’23 Director
Pomona College Museum of Art and Professor of Art History
GLI Class of 2009
Robert La France
Director
David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University
GLI Class of 2015
Shen Maosheng
Deputy Director
Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum
GLI Class of 2014
Steve Nash
Director of Anthropology Branch
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
GLI Class of 2018
Regan Pro
Deputy Director, Public Program and Social Impact
Lucas Museum of Narrative Ar
GLI Class of 2019
Jessica Sharpe
Director of Visitor Operations and Membership
Philadelphia Museum of Art
GLI Class of 2016
Virginia Shearer
Executive Director
Sarasota Art Museum of Ringling College of Art and Design
GLI Class of 2014
NextGen Class of 2012
Niki Stewart
Vice President and Chief Learning and Engagement Officer
Frank Llyod Wright Foundation
GLI Class of 2015
Feige Xiao
Director of Marketing and Communication
Chengdu Museum
NextGen Class of 2012
GLI Class of 2019
Rui Xu
Chief of Central China International Ceramics Biennale Office,
Henan Museum
GLI Class of 2016
Lei Yin
Deputy Director General
Nanjing Imperial Examination Museum of China
GLI Class of 2019