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Christine Jewell has over 24 years of professional experience in museums and education developing, leading and promoting educational programs in the arts, history and the humanities. She has worked at museums and historic sites throughout Connecticut including the Mattatuck Museum and the Fairfield Museum and History Center. She currently works as a consultant with the Ancient Burying Ground Association and The 1636 Heritage Partnership, in support of Center Church, in Hartford, CT.

Ms. Jewell was the Director of Programs at the Mattatuck Museum from 2000 - 2008, where she developed programs in conjunction with exhibitions and grant-funded initiatives. She was the Chair of the Youth Development Council and assisted with establishing the Arts and Culture Collaborative, Greater Waterbury. She  was the Director of Education and Community Programs at the Fairfield Museum and History Center from 2008 - 2018. Jewell  was an instrumental member of a team to develop exhibitions and educational programs for a new, community-based museum. Programs for teachers, adults, children and families were developed in conjunction with exhibitions, historic sites and buildings on the Fairfield Green and the 1750 Ogden House. Ms. Jewell developed school programs for students from Pre-K through the college level that integrated inquiry-based learning, museum archives, exhibitions and collections with curricula in education technology, social studies, visual arts and English language arts.

Ms. Jewell has a B.F.A. from the State University of New York in Purchase and designed an independent study M.A. in Social Policy and the Arts at Empire State College, New York, which included summer study at Venice International University in Italy. She has pursued further training in Arts Management from UMASS, Amherst and has certificates in Youth Development from The Consultation Center at Yale and Teaching with Primary Sources from the Library of Congress.