Carol Garfinkel has more than fifteen years' experience as an interpretive writer and exhibit developer for museums, zoos, aquariums, nature centers and botanical gardens. She is also an experienced teacher and environmental educator who has worked with students ages two to adult. Carol offers clients first-hand knowledge of family education, informal learning and visitor behavior. She has an excellent sense of what makes an exhibit communicate successfully and how to present concepts so that they will be understandable and appealing to visitors.

Carol was project coordinator for "Breaking Ground," the NSF-funded collaboration between The Brooklyn Children's Museum and Brooklyn Botanic Garden. She recently helped the Indianapolis Zoo develop editorial guidelines for improved zoo-wide graphics.

Carol has developed concepts and written scripts for varied exhibitions. These include: the Discovery Garden at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, an early childhood experiential learning environment; Shedd Aquarium's Underwater Viewing Gallery, an interactive exhibition hall; Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions, a mobile museum for Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service; and the Inwood Hill Park Urban Ecology Center in New York City. She was principal writer/editor for the Innovation Gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose.

Carol's exhibition labels for Shedd Aquarium's Underwater Viewing Gallery were found by an outside evaluator to be unusually successful in holding the attention of visitors. In addition to label copy, she has also written instructional materials, guidebooks, brochures and interactive multimedia.

Carol is on the board of NAME, the National Association for Museum Exhibition. She has organized annual workshops in her region and led roundtable discussions on exhibit development at meetings of the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. She was instrumental in starting the Chicago Museum Exhibitors Group.

Carol earned a Bachelor of Science with Distinction from Cornell University and a Master of Education from Temple University. Her studies included coursework in education, natural history, botany, zoology, anthropology, physical sciences and geology.