Sherry Kafka-Wagner

studied at Harvard University in the Graduate School of Design as a Loeb Fellow, 1980-81. Since 1968, Sherry Wagner has worked as a consultant, researcher, lecturer and writer. She has worked both independently and as a team member on a number of large, interdisciplinary projects. In the area of urban planning and design, Sherry was involved in the San Antonio River Corridor Plan for Development and Management with Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, San Francisco, California. She was also a consultant for the Arts District Plan in Dallas, Texas with Carr, Lynch Associates from Cambridge Massachusetts. Ms. Wagner also specializes in cultural institution planning and operations development and was the planner for development, design and operations for the New Scientific Center in Kuwait City, Kuwait, which included a park, aquarium, children’s discovery/science museum, shop and restaurant with Cambridge Seven and IDEA, in Boston, Mass. Her experience in exhibit planning and development is also quite extensive, having worked as a consultant on the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and to the National Science Foundation and Educational Development Center. Ms. Wagner has spoken at a number of universities, museums, conferences and organizations in the United States and Canada. She was a keynote speaker for the Land Use Summit in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, prior to the Olympics there.