Liesl Olson is a writer, cultural historian, literary scholar, and social justice advocate. She is the author of Modernism and the Ordinary (Oxford, 2009), Chicago Renaissance: Literature and Art in the Midwest Metropolis (Yale, 2017), and forthcoming Now We See the World Together: Five Midwesterners and the Revolution of Modern Art (Norton, 2025). Before arriving at Hull-House, she directed the Program in Chicago Studies at the Newberry Library, where in 2021 she curated Chicago Avant-Garde and produced its accompanying catalog. With three of her Newberry colleagues, Olson was awarded the 2020 Outstanding Public History Project Award from the National Council on Public History for Chicago 1919: Confronting the Race Riots. Liesl holds strong opinions about poetry, and despite her proclivity for impossible shoes, she loves to go camping.

Matthew Randle-Bent is a historian, artist and educator who has been on the Hull-House staff since fall 2023. At Hull-House, he has overseen a number of large-scale projects, including the development and opening of Hull-House Books, the museum’s new bookstore and publishing imprint; Act Well Your Part, the multi-year exploration of Hull-House Theatre histories; and the implementation of a new design identity and website, in partnership with Hour and Normal design studios. He is currently co-editing the museum’s second catalogue, Act Well Your Part, There All The Honor Lies: Histories of Hull-House Theatre, alongside Liesl Olson and Ross Jordan. Having grown up in Gloucestershire, rural England, he attended the University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London, before moving to Chicago in 2016 for his PhD at Northwestern University. In 2022, he was an artist in residence at The Watermill Center. He is a board member at Remy Bumppo Theatre Company. At Hull-House, he works across public programs, exhibitions, fundraising, communications, and administration.

Ross Stanton Jordan is a curator interested in the confluence of politics, history, and visual culture. .At the museum, he has produced a dozen exhibitions and one hundred public programs that connect the social justice issues of the past to the present-day demands for social equity via collaborations with artists, scholars and community-based organizations. Ross has held curatorial fellowships at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs, and Independent Curators International. In 2022, Newcity Magazine named Ross one of the top 50 Chicago arts administrators working to make a more equitable and sustainable arts world. He holds a studio arts degree from Connecticut College, and dual masters degrees in art history and arts administration and policy from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Ross is a loud talker, and there is nothing that can be done about it.

Nadia Maragha has been an Educator at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum since 2020. She holds a master’s degree in political science from UIC, with a research background in comparative urban politics and international human rights issues. She has worked in a variety of informal education spaces since then, including the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago. Her work and research at Hull-House include writing for the museum’s online journal, leading public tours and programs, and giving presentations on subjects like Hull-House’s work in public health, the roles of museums in communities, Chicago folklore, Hull-House’s arts history, and social justice organizing in Chicago. In her free time, she is a horror enthusiast, an avid gamer, and loves needlework and hiking.

Candace Bey is an social historian, cultural worker and very proud Chicagoan. Her aim is to share and engage with community histories specifically related to Chicago, labor and leisure, women’s and African-American stories. Before joining the Hull-House team, she spent time on the education teams at the Chicago History Museum and the Imperial War Museum North. At Hull-House,  you can find her running programs, hosting workshops and giving one of the best historical tours in the city. Her favorite pastime is hosting her friends from out of town and designing bespoke experiences for them in an effort to convince them to move to the Second City (second to none!).

Amber Moore is the Business Manager for the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and the Hull-House Museum. With over 16 years of experience in higher education, including roles at Illinois Institute of Technology and DeVry University Online, she brings both strategic acumen and a people-first approach to her work. Amber holds a master’s in accounting & financial management and a bachelor’s in business management, and she is also an adjunct instructor teaching Introduction to Small Business. A true Chicagoan, she is passionate about her city, enjoys time with her family, and brings her love of design and creative thinking to every initiative she supports.

Cecilia Rossi is a recent UIC graduate and earned her BA in History with a specialization in the social history of the U.S. and a minor in Museum Studies. She has research interests in the intersections of labor, gender, and race, as well as the history of radicalism. She feels passionately about making history more accessible and engaging, and she is interested in learning more about Chicago’s communities. She is enthusiastic about Rummy 500 with friends and has an affinity for trinkets and cats.

Fabrizzio Subia is a Chicago-based performance artist, poet, and museum professional from Guayaquil, Ecuador. Using tools such as video cameras, sand, pen and paper, and fire, he makes art that speaks on experiences of migration, grief, and celebration. Fabrizzio has worked throughout Chicago’s arts and culture institutions, including the International Museum of Surgical Science, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art. He is an Artist-in-Residence at Chicago Art Department, a member of radical art collective P.O. Box Collective, and the founder of the anarchist library Bioblioca Popular. He earned his BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. On any day that’s warm enough, you can find him on particular sidewalks break dancing with his friends.