Sarah Pharaon, Principal

Since launching in March of 2020, we’ve been the best kind of busy. Dialogic has led internal focus groups in planning for the Smithsonian American Women's History Museum, gallery imagining workshops for the Asian Pacific American Center, facilitation training for MOCA Los Angeles and the Philbrook Museum of Art (OK) and facilitated for the White House Summit, “Museums Respond: Strategies for Countering Antisemitism and Hate,” as well as the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian, Winterthur, and the Center for the Conservation of Art and Historic Artifacts (PA). We worked with leaders of the New Orleans civil rights movement in the creation of The Trail They Blazed and the award-winning exhibition, Captive State, and on interpretive plans for Monterey Bay Aquarium, Florida State Parks, The Glass House and Billings Farm. We have led strategic planning for Raynham Hall (NY), NAS Wildwood Aviation Museum (NJ) and John Brown Lives! (NY). With experience in program design and writing, Dialogic designed 36 Questions for Civic Love for the National Public Housing Museum and interactive scripts for the Smithsonian SITES exhibition, The Bias Inside Us.

Prior to Dialogic, Sarah directed consultation services for the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. With them, she led trainings for the National Park Service, consulted on Eastern State Penitentiary’s award-winning Prisons Today: Questions in the Age of Mass Incarceration, created programming for the Americans exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian, and managed the reinterpretation of the home of Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winner, Pearl S. Buck.

Sarah worked as the Director of Education at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum and was the founding curator of the Arab American National Museum. She serves on the American Jewish Museums Advisory Council and is a member of the Emeritus Council of the American Association of State and Local History.