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2025
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2025
December: Save Philly Festivals! On #GivingTuesday
July: DiasporaDNA Summer 🌞 Call for Artists 🎨 Workshops ⏳️ Festivals 🎉
June: Juneteenth Art'Ventures ❤️🖤💚 Releasing Grief - Reclaiming Power!
May: Summer Sun & Program Fun with DiasporaDNA!
April: Welcome Spring 🌸 It's Festival Time across our Diasporas!
March: DiasporaDNA Celebrating Women's History Month♀️with a Rebel Beat!
February: Happy Black History Month! Uplifting Diaspora Orgs we Admire
January: Honoring Venerable Ancestors! Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
2024
DiasporaDNA & Monica in the press!
Click through the following articles, podcasts, and presentations to learn more about our journey, our story, and our founder.
Evening WURDs
Listen to Monica and others chat with Dr. Peterson about how community groups share their mission and work with the MISSION Story Slam.
Curating Courage & Culture: Monica O. Montgomery on Storytelling and Representation in the Arts
Monica sat down with Anisha Jennings to talk about DiasporaDNA and the role of museums in our society.
MISSION Story Slam: Monica O. Montgomery - The Time is Now
Watch Monica tell her story at MISSION Story Slam!
The Citizen Recommends: MISSION Story Slam
In this edition of The Citizen Recommends, MISSION Story Slam is highlighted along with DiasporaDNA Founder and President, Monica O. Montgomery, who planned to tell her story at the event on June 10th.
Philly Festivals Fueling the Future
Our Community Spotlight series uplifts the voices, stories, and expertise of artists and arts administrators of color from across our national network. Each post highlights a unique perspective and experience, offering insight, inspiration, and connection — rooted in our shared commitment to equity, advocacy, and community-building in the arts. We are proud to celebrate the contributions of our community members and thank them for sharing their journeys with us.
Blog post by Monica for AAC.
“On today's episode, we are joined by the Executive Director of the DiasporaDNA Story Center, Monica O. Montgomery, to talk about “The Future of the Un-Museum” -- or what it means to rethink and reshape museums to be spaces where visitors actively participate in the creation of our art, our stories, and our histories.
This episode is part of an ongoing series titled THE FUTURE OF…, where we chat with experts in various sectors to learn about what they are doing to shift the critical now for a radical new future.” Hosted by Dr. Amber Johnson.
Click here for the episode transcript.
Museums x Change: DiasporaDNA Story Center: The Journey to Launch a Modern Mindful Un-Museum
Presented by American Alliance of Museums’ Museums x Change series. Moderated and convened by Avi Decter.
A Germantown museum is honoring the art and activism of formerly incarcerated people
By Nate File for The Philadelphia Inquirer
Job Hop or Career Climb: Let’s stop demonizing non-linear career paths
By Monica O. Montgomery for Museum Next Op Ed
The Mütter’s Museum held a town hall to discuss their use of human remains. Things got tense.
By Rosa Cartagena & Rita Giordano for The Philadelphia Inquirer
Social Justice curator Monica Montgomery has big dreams
Smithsonian Torch
Testimonials
“Such amazing insights in Museums & Change about the cultural diaspora from Monica O. Montgomery, Founder and President of the DiasporaDNA Story Center. A new way to conceive the collective role of a Storytelling Center because we are the stories we tell ourselves and others. Don't miss the conversation!”
- Jose Antonio Gordillo Martorell, Founder & CEO of Cultural Inquiry