About our bloggers

Current Contributors

Andrea Godinez (Barber) is the public relations and marketing coordinator for the Burke Museum and is the editor of the Burke Blog.

Christy Hansen is an ethnology archives assistant for the Burke Museum.

Winifred Kehl is the outreach assistant for the Burke Museum.

Karin Moughamer is the campus outreach coordinator for the Burke Museum.

Jessica Newkirk is the facility rental coordinator for the Burke Museum. 

Samantha Porter is the operations assistant for the Burke Museum.

Past Contributors

Peg Boettcher, is a recent graduate of the UW Museology certificate program and wrote a number of blog entries as an intern in the Communications department.


Emily Sparling; served as the Burke Museum's public relations assistant for two years during which she earned her masters degree in the UW's Museology Graduate Program.

Julia Swan was the public relations and outreach coordinator at the Burke Museum and edited the Burke Blog for a number of years. She is now at the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle.