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As a child, Rosa Rodriguez-Williams didn檛 visit many museums with her family, who moved from Puerto Rico to Lawrence, Massachusetts, when she was 8 years old. 淏eing from the inner city, we felt that museums weren檛 for people like us,� Rodriguez-Williams MSW�99 said. A few decades later, she now helping make one more inclusive. In September, Rodriguez-Williams攚ho built her career creating space for people from marginalized communities攚as named the first-ever senior director of belonging and inclusion at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, where she'll work to ensure that guests of all backgrounds feel comfortable visiting the world-class collections. 淭his is a big place for me to open doors for people that usually would not walk through,� she said. �Alix Hackett听

THE POWER OF ART听
淚 love people stories, and art brings stories and narratives alive. When people put art on a canvas, to me it like their insides are being poured out. It a beautiful thing to be able to experience that here.�

ONGOING ACTIVISM听
淚檝e always been an activist. It always been at the forefront for me. It might seem new to some because the cries for racial justice and social justice are more in your face, but this work has been happening for a very long time.�

A REAL SHIFT听
淚nstitutions and organizations攚hether it a museum, a university, or a bank攔ealize that there a real shift happening. They have to look at and assess what they檙e doing and move with this generation, or get left behind.澨�

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