Laura Huerta Migus serves as the Director of Fellowship Alumni Engagement and National Activation & Impact at Ascend at the Aspen Institute. She is focused on strategically supporting, organizing, and activating the growing Ascend Fellows Alumni community to amplify and advance issue-focused action. Laura will lead the development of new engagement models to deepen alumni commitment to the sustainability of Ascend Fellowship program.Â
For more than twenty years, Laura worked at a national level to advance museums’ ability to nurture and support a healthy museum workforce and better serve all audiences. This work was accomplished through leadership appointments at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Association of Children’s Museums (ACM), and the Association of Science-Technology Centers, Inc. (ASTC). She is a noted speaker and author on topics of equity and audience-focused museum practice for institutions including the Board of Science Education of the National Academies of Sciences, the U.S. Play Coalition, and various peer-reviewed texts. She has also spearheaded the launch of a number of groundbreaking public-private partnership initiatives, including the National Museum Survey and Museums for All.Â
In 2018, Huerta Migus was named as an Ascend Fellow of the Aspen Institute, and in 2016, she was recognized as a Champion of Change for Summer Opportunity by the White House. She holds degrees from Texas A&M and Saint Joseph’s University.
