
Association of Children's Museums InterActivity Conference 2025

Theme: Uplifting the Community: Reaching New Heights Together
May 14-16, 2025
Albuquerque, NM
Hosted in partnership with
Explora Science Center and Children’s Museum of Albuquerque
https://childrensmuseums.org/interactivity/
Preliminary program
https://childrensmuseums.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/IA25-Preliminary-Program.pdf
NISE Network Booth
at the InterActivity MarketPlace 2025 exhibit hall
Ballroom of the Albuquerque Convention Center
Wednesday, May 14 from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, May 15 from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
NISE Network will be at Booth #61
Concurrent Sessions
Friday May 21, 2025
1:15 p.m.–2:30 p.m.
Beyond Translation: Equitable Design Considerations for Engaging with Hispanic Families
Family dynamics in many Hispanic families, particularly
in immigrant families, can be nearly invisible and hard to imagine for most non-Hispanic Americans. Hispanic children often take on important roles as translators and family leaders on civic, monetary, and legal issues—putting youth into outsized responsibilities that may detract from their ability to be kids, and that may take away caretakers’ role. To avoid re-creating exclusionary or assimilationist paradigms that families navigate in the U.S., presenters will describe ways to incorporate equitable design practices for museum practitioners for families.
- Max Cawley, Museum of Life and Science
- Andrea Tejada, Museum of Life and Science
- Felipe Peña III, Children’s Museum of Brownsville