Clare Murray, Co-Founder and Executive Director of cARTie, Connecticut’s non-profit mobile art museum bridging inequities in education and arts access, is committed to maintaining curiosity for and learning about young children’s experiences with, in, and through the arts. As a Doctoral Student in Art and Art Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and a Course Assistant for the National Center for Children and Families, she is interested in forging collaborations across areas of practice, policy, and research in her work bringing the arts to the heart of early childhood education policy. Clare also holds an MA in Early Childhood Education Policy from Teachers College, Columbia University, an MEd in Arts in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, a BA in Economics and Latin American Studies from Colby College, and a Fulbright Predoctoral Research Scholarship to study the educational programming and impact of an emerging network of cultural spaces in Spain.