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Clara de Pablo

Clara de Pablo grew up in Wisconsin and Chicago and recently graduated from Yale University, where she majored in American Studies. At Yale, her research centered on representations of women in visual media and propaganda during the 1940s–50s. In her spare time, she was a volunteer coach for the Girls on the Run afterschool program, and recently worked as a leader for the Mexican intercultural exchange program, Jóvenes en Acción. Clara was a former intern at the National Museum of American History through the Internship to Fellowship (I2F) Program and returned to work on the exhibit, Girlhood: It’s Complicated, with Melinda Machado in the Office of Communications and Marketing at the National Museum of American History.

Krystal Quiles, “Girlhood (It’s complicated).” Image courtesy of the National Museum of American History.

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