New Director of Digital Media

We are proud to welcome Anthonie Tumpag, BSW, MA to the team in the position of Director of Digital Media. With his experience in the field, as well as with his connections to the Native American communities in the Midwest, Mr. Tumpag will be a great asset to our organization.

Anthonie Tumpag is based in the Greater Chicago area where he serves as the Curator and Collections Manager for a Native American Cultural Center. He graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Master's in Cultural Anthropology and certificates in Applied Anthropology and Art History. He also holds a Bachelor of Social Work and specializes in gender and post-colonial studies among diasporic communities of the Philippines and Indonesia. He's done fieldwork in Indonesia, Madagascar, Philippines, and Taiwan researching topics relevant across nations like ecological conservation and the impacts of cultural tourism. He has curated exhibits and given talks at universities and museums and was a research intern at the Smithsonian Institution. In his spare time, Anthonie serves on the board of the Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago where he worked to digitize their collections.