Liz Ševčenko
Director

Alison Cornyn
Creative Director

Julia Thomas
Research Associate

Philip Johnson
Web Editor

James Heaton
Website Co-Creative Director

Anne Mieth
Website Art Director

Tamara Chehayeb Makarem
Interaction & Graphic Designer

Angel Ortiz
Graphic Designer

Nupur Mathur
Designer

Liz Ševčenko, Director

Liz Sevcenko (she/her) is the founding director of the Humanities Action Lab.  She started HAL at The New School in New York City and now co-directs it from Rutgers University-Newark with Regina Campbell, focusing on HAL’s Climates of Inequality project, fund raising, and communications.  HAL grew out of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project, an international collaboration of universities and organizations that Sevcenko launched from Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights, to build a global conversation about the past, present, and future of the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay. Sevcenko was the founding director of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a network of historic sites that foster public dialogue on pressing contemporary issues. Prior to starting the Coalition, Sevcenko served as Vice President for Programs at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, developing exhibits and educational activities that connect the stories of the neighborhood’s immigrants past and present. In 2017 she was awarded a Rome Prize in historic preservation from the American Academy in Rome to complete her book, Public History for a Post-Truth Era:  Fighting Denial Through Memory Movements. She received her M.A. in history from New York University.