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Asami Robledo-Allen Yamamoto

Biography

Asami Robledo-Allen Yamamoto is the project manager at Latinos in Heritage Conservation (LHC). In her current role, Asami is spearheading projects to preserve Latinx heritage, stories, peoples, and sites across the United States and Puerto Rico through the Abuelas Project and the Latinx Preservation Tool Kit. Additionally, she works part time at the Kimbell Art Museum as a translator and bilingual educator. Previously, she served as the community and bilingual programs coordinator at the Kimbell Art Museum. At the Kimbell Art Museum, Asami established and facilitated the museum’s first dedicated bilingual program, Pictures and Pages/Fotos y Libros. She also facilitated numerous bilingual community outreach programs and created Spanish language access resources. Before the Kimbell, Asami was a previous bilingual gallery teacher at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. Her museum work focuses on Spanish-language inclusion, Latinx advocacy, bilingual community and school programs, bilingual programs for children 6 and under, and anti-ableism practices in museum education. Asami is a board member for the Museum Education Roundtable (MER) and serves as part of the editorial board for the Journal of Museum Education (JME). She has served as a thesis chair to an emerging museum educator and a guest speaker at the University of North Texas. Asami has presented at the 2022 NAEA conference and will present again at the 2023 NAEA Conference on bilingualism. Asami has published in the JME, Art Education Journal, and the MER Blog.
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