Alice Anderson is a Senior Research & Evaluation Specialist at the Forum’s Weikart Center, where she supports clients and partners in leveraging data to optimize decision making and increasing impact. She enjoys collaborating with informal educators through playful, empathetic and data-centered dialogue.

Alice has a particular interest in the power and potential of media-rich designed environments such as museums, makerspaces and movies. She began her career in research as a Research Assistant at the Center for Children and Technology, where she supported projects studying the impact of digital media resources and professional development programs and in formal and informal learning settings.

Prior to joining the Forum, Alice was the Manager of Audience Research & Impact at the Minneapolis Institute of Art. In that role, she supported internal colleagues in understanding what visitors think, feel and learn. She also collaborated with museums across the country on research initiatives on the topics of empathy and belonging. She also worked as a Research & Evaluation Associate at the Science Museum of Minnesota, studying the impact of museum interactives and makerspaces on young people and their families.

Before becoming interested in research, Alice was trained as a museum educator in the methodology of Visual Thinking Strategies and was an educator at the Jewish Museum in New York City and intern at the Children’s Museum of Minnesota.

Alice is pursuing an Ed.D. in Out-of-School Learning at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds an Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a B.A. in Art History from Grinnell College. She lives with her family on the ancestral homelands of the Dakota people in Minneapolis, Minnesota.