Kendra Lyimo
.Kendra (Gibbon, MN) attended Notre Dame where they graduated with a degree in Art History (Honors) and minors in Italian and Africana Studies. Described as “one of the most talented and intellectually promising students” encountered at Notre Dame, Kendra has won numerous awards including a Beinecke Scholarship; worked as a curatorial intern at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art; held multiple longitudinal research assistantships and public teaching roles at the Snite Museum of Art and Raclin Murphy Museum of Art in Indiana; worked as a scientific guest at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome; published widely on art history problems; and volunteered on campus and in the South Bend community. Kendra is strongly interested in the art of the East African diaspora. For their first year of Marshall, Kendra pursued the MA in History of Design jointly delivered by the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal College of Art in London. During their second year, Kendra will pursue an MSt in Art History by research at the University of St Andrews where they will explore the visual and political links between the artwork of Tanzanian-born artist Everlyn Nicodemus and the lived experiences of women in socialist, post-colonial Tanzania.