Gallagher & Associates

Gallagher & Associates is world renowned exhibit design firm out of Washington, DC specializing the planning, design and management of innovative, informative, and immersive experiences for museums, learning facilities, visitor and scenic centers, traveling exhibitions and corporate organizations.  Examples of their work can be found at The National Archives Experience, the International Spy Museum, Jamestown Settlement and the National World War II Museum.

George C. Wolfe

In 2009, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights named Wolfe Chief Creative Officer.  In this role he is responsible for creating an interactive, multi-sensory visitor experience.  Working together with exhibition design firm Gallagher & Associates, Wolfe conceptualizes Center permanent exhibitions and installations that will bring civil and human rights to life using a storytelling approach.  One of Broadway's most respected directors and writers, Wolfe's theatre direction credits including Tony Award-winning "Bring in 'Da Noise, Bring in 'Da Funk" and "Angels in America-Millennium Approaches".  In 2010 he directed the Tony-nominated "The Normal Heart".  Mr. Wolfe has also directed Hollywood movies including "Nights in Rodanthe" and "Lackawanna Blues", for which he earned a Directors Guild Award, four NAACP Image Awards and seven Emmy Award nominations.

Jill Savitt

In 2011, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights named Savitt Human Rights Exhibition Coordinator.  In this role, she will help establish relevance between the historical and contemporary human rights issues presented through the Center’s educational exhibitions. Jill also serves as a Special Advisor at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., working with the Committee on Conscience, which focuses on contemporary genocides.

Jill has expertise in the field of genocide prevention and an extensive background in strategic communications for human rights issues. She founded and directed Dream for Darfur in 2007, a public advocacy initiative to urge the Chinese government to take specific actions regarding the Darfur crisis. She also served on the board of the Save Darfur Coalition.   Before founding Dream for Darfur, Jill was the Communications Director and the Director of Public Programs at Human Rights First. While there, she designed and supervised public advocacy initiatives, including efforts to address the Darfur crisis, U.S. interrogation policy, and a special project focused on the depiction of torture on television.

Jill has taught a course on human rights advocacy at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. Her work has been profiled in publications such as The New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker.

David Salk Mandel

David Salk Mandel serves as Design and Content Manager. He is overseeing the exhibition design and content development process for the Center.  As the liaison between the curatorial team, the exhibition designers, and the building’s architects, David is responsible for seeing that the emotional and intellectual synergy established by the exhibition’s content and design visually represents and promotes the Center’s message.

David’s career in exhibition design and development began in 1991 when, as a founding staff member at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., he helped develop the USHMM’s permanent exhibition. Hired by Ralph Appelbaum Associates NYC, the world’s largest interpretive museum design firm, as a senior exhibit developer he worked on the National Constitution Center, the Newseum, the Country Music Hall of Fame, and the Vietnam Era Educational Center.  After ten years at Appelbaum, he became the Director of Exhibitions at the N-Y Historical Society in Manhattan where he oversaw the design and development of the landmark Slavery in New York exhibit.