<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/stories/how-to-have-hard-conversations-sarah-pharaon-dialogic.html" dsn="news"><featured/><pubDate>03/07/2023</pubDate><title>How to Have Hard Conversations: Sarah Pharaon '00</title><description>Franklin &amp; Marshall College alum Sarah Pharaon has built a career in some of the nation's most renowned museums. After 20 years of museum work, she launched Dialogic to help nonprofit institutions have better conversations around difficult histories. Pharaon, an American studies graduate, has since led internal focus groups for organizations such as Smithsonian American Women's History Museum.</description><author>Kim O'Brien</author><image><img src="/uploads/files/282455186828309162-04-08-sarah-pharaon-00-03-dg.0.38.1200.723.full.jpg" alt="F&amp;M alum Sarah Pharaon 00 shares: In my senior year, the late David Schuyler asked me if I knew what I was going to do with my American studies degree. I wasnt sure. And then he said: I do. You are going to get your masters degree in museum studies. And then you are going to change museums. "/></image><image-caption/><tags><tag>Alumni</tag><tag>American Studies</tag><tag>Common Hour</tag></tags></item>