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Lisa Westcott Wilkins FSA MCIfA is an archaeologist and Founder and co-CEO of DigVentures. [1] She was made a Clore Fellow in 2010 [2] and elected as a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2020. [3] She was appointed an Ashoka Fellow in April 2024. [4]
Westcott Wilkins undertook her undergraduate degree in Communications at Ithaca College, and later completed an MA in Archaeology at University College London in 2001. [5]
Westcott Wilkins' first job was director of operations at Museum of the Earth at Ithaca (2003-2005), then she worked at the University of Rochester as a Chief Development Officer (2005–2007). [5] She then moved to the UK where she was the Editor of Current Archaeology in 2007 and remained in post until 2010 when she undertook a Clore Fellowship – an arts and culture leadership training programme – where she was the first archaeologist to undertake the programme. [4] As part of this Westcott Wilkins undertook a placement as Project Manager for the Evaluation of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad where she was influenced to develop a public engagement evaluation methodology which later underpinned the work of DigVentures, the company that Westcott Wilkins founded shortly thereafter. [1] Since 2012 Lisa has been the Founder and co-CEO of DigVentures [1] where she has pioneered the use of crowdfunding, crowdsourcing and digital methods to increase access and opportunities for non-specialists to engage in archaeological practice and research. [6]
Lisa has a passion for walking and dogs and one of her proudest moments at DigVentures was in 2012 when their resident Site Dog, Fergus, was interviewed for the Radio 4 Today Programme. [7] All DigVentures Site Dogs have their own staff profiles on their website [8] and they have pioneered Dog Cams. [9]
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