Andrea Kim Neighbors is a museum education professional and researcher based in Helsinki, Finland. She is the former Director of Education at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center (APAC), where she worked with K–12 educators and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities across the United States and the Pacific to co-create educational resources highlighting AANHPI histories. She has also served as the Head of Education at APAC, Manager of Community Partnerships at The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and Tour Manager at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience in Seattle, Washington.

 

Andrea has taught postgraduate courses at the George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, D.C., on museum education, public programming, and community engagement strategies. She was a Getty Leadership NextGen Fellow (2019), a former board member of the Museum Education Roundtable, and a former book reviewer for Hyphen Magazine.

 

Her writing has appeared in the Journal of Museum Education and Smithsonian Magazine, with a focus on museum education, community engagement, museum equity, and Asian American public history. She holds an M.A. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and has conducted independent field research on the anthropology of childhood in the Russian Far East.