Kimberly Musial Datchuk (she/her) builds programs and educational opportunities with creativity, collaboration, and curiosity in mind as the curator of learning & engagement at the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art. Prior to that, she held a dual position as visiting assistant professor in art education at the University of Iowa and assistant curator of special projects at the Stanley. She has curated several exhibitions that center the work of women and the struggle for social justice, topics which have deep connections to the Anne Frank Initiative. Her research and curatorial interests include institutional critique and the intersection of art, gender, sexuality, and technology, particularly in fin-de-siècle France. She has a doctorate in art history, with a specialty in nineteenth-century European art. She has presented her research throughout the United States, as well as France, England, and Poland.

Shereena Honary holds a Research M.A. in Area Studies of the Middle East from Leiden University, The Netherlands. She focused on Middle Eastern diasporic narratives, particularly the graphic novel Persepolis, to analyze autobiographical and diasporic narrative themes of identity, gender, and Otherness, and the ways in which personal narrative guides us towards understanding and universal humanism. Shereena currently oversees events at the Pentacrest Museums, which housed the Anne Frank exhibit, “Let Me Be Myself: The Life Story of Anne Frank” in 2022. She also completed the Peer Educator Training offered alongside the exhibit to inspire in visitors ways in which to relate and learn from her powerful narrative. Growing up as a daughter of an immigrant herself, the hope to create a world with acceptance and belonging that the story of Anne Frank inspires continues to be a driving force for Shereena’s academic and community involvement.