How maritime museums can save the ocean | Christina Connett Brophy, PhD | TEDxSanDiego

How can a museum save the ocean? Dr. Christina Connett Brophy, President and CEO of the Maritime Museum of San Diego, has an answer rooted in her own childhood at sea: by connecting people to the past, to each other, and to the future — one ship, one story at a time.
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#MaritimeMuseum #SanDiegoMuseum Christina Connett Brophy, PhD, is President and CEO of the Maritime Museum of San Diego; an International Congress of Maritime Museums (ICMM) Executive Council member; Lead for the ICMM Maritime Refugees Project; Explorers Club Fellow; Board member of TMA BlueTech. She held leadership roles at Mystic Seaport Museum and the New Bedford Whaling Museum; taught at Rhode Island School of Design and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Scripps Center for Marine Archaeology.

Connett Brophy has lectured in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East on maritime history, fine art, and cartography. She holds degrees from Northwestern University, University of Auckland, and University of Valencia.

A lifelong mariner, she grew up aboard the research vessel Geronimo, tagging sharks and turtles throughout the Atlantic for the National Marine Fisheries Service and the Archie Carr Foundation, an ongoing program founded by her parents and St. George’s School 50 years ago. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx