Zak Risinger

Zak Risinger is a cultural member of the Cherokee Nation who has consulted museums throughout the United States and Canada on best practices to engage audiences with Indigenous art and artifacts. He has worked extensively with the MET, American Museum of Natural History, and Philadelphia Museum of Art. While serving as the New York City Creative Manager for Museum Hack, he curated dozens of specially crafted museum experiences reimagining existing museum collections through the lens of a multitude of varied topics including: adversity, leadership, teamwork, feminism, LGBTQIA culture, true crime, magic, and sex. Currently, he is completing a Curatorial Fellowship at The Kupferberg Holocaust Center in Queens where he curates educational material and crafts programming facilitating conversations illuminating the contemporary Native experience and the ramifications of centuries of violence and genocide leveraged against Indigenous people in North America. He holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from The University of Oklahoma and a M.A. in Museum Studies through a partnership with CUNY and The New-York Historical Society, focusing on Inclusion and Diversity of Voices.