Emily Krichbaum, Ph.D., assistant director of strategic programs and education, leads and oversees a range of innovative educational programs and strategic initiatives while collaborating with external partners to create impactful programs and exhibitions. Emily spent the first 10 years of her academic career teaching American History and American Women’s History at the undergraduate and graduate-level, leading professional development on primary-source centered classrooms, and establishing intergenerational mentoring and leadership programming for female students and faculty. She is the recipient of several university-wide teaching and mentoring awards. After leaving the university, she taught and founded a leadership center at an all-girls independent school, where she developed programming and curriculum to ensure the next generation of female leaders have the tools to lead themselves and others. 

Emily completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in American Women’s History at Case Western Reserve University, where she studied modern American social movements under Dr. Renee Sentilles and Dr. Rhonda Y. Williams. Her dissertation, which received the ‘Jane and Cecil Lyman Prize for Best Ph.D. Dissertation’ and was recently featured by the Smithsonian podcast Sidedoor, explores the intersection of feminism, ageism, and advocacy through the lives of Maggie Kuhn and Tish Sommers. Her research and stories have appeared on NPR, the TEDx stage, and the University of Notre Dame press.