A. Andrea Montiel De Shuman

Andrea (she/her) is a Digital Experience Designer based in Detroit, where she has lived since immigrating from Mexico in 2013. She was born and raised in the state of Puebla, where she grew up surrounded by music, colors, and museums.
As a Digital Experience Designer at the Detroit Institute of Arts her main tasks are to design digital experiences that help visitors see themselves in art. For this, she collaborates with community advisors, leads user-tests, and works teamed up with different departments, largely with the Interpretation team.
Outside of the museum, Andrea is heavily engaged in conversations around digital transformation, experience design and meaning making. She currently serves in the Committee for the Media & Technology MUSE Awards by the American Alliance of Museums and has presented at SXSW, VCAM, AAMI and MCN.
Lately, she has been interested in how digital innovation can help serve communities that museums can struggle with.