Maggie Jacobstein Stern

Director, Advocacy
Boston, MA, USA

Maggie’s work explores how we communicate layers of narrative, truth-telling, and meaning. She is interested in the ways that exhibitions and interpretation can be used to express the stories and issues of our time, allowing us to unveil rich layers of meaning and to create new points of connection. 

At MASS, Maggie leads exhibitions work in her role as a Director on the Advocacy team. She has contributed to a number of projects in our Public Memory and Memorials Lab, notably The Gun Violence Memorial Project. Additional exhibitions in her portfolio are: Fringe Cities: Legacies of Renewal in the Small American City (Center for Architecture, NYC), National Museum of Heroism (Kigali, Rwanda), Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (Kinigi, Rwanda), Justice is Beauty (National Building Museum, Washington, DC), Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics (Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, NYC), and AFRITECT at the 2023 Venice Biennale.

Prior to MASS, Maggie spent a decade as a content and education specialist at Ralph Appelbaum Associates; key projects included Russian Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, the Presidio Officers’ Club in San Francisco, and the Arctic Studies Center at the Anchorage Museum in Alaska.

She holds a Bachelor in Humanities from McGill University and a Master of Education from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education., where she studied the intersection between design and learning.