Alice Boone moves fluidly between worlds — and has spent her career making meaning in the spaces between them. She holds a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, where her dissertation explored liminal spaces, a B.A. in English from Barnard College, and a Graduate Certificate in Organizational and Leadership Coaching from Northwestern University.

That foundational curiosity about thresholds and transformation shapes everything she does. At Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, she facilitates cross-disciplinary inquiry between art and engineering and teaches Design Thinking and Communication at the Segal Design Institute. As Director of Engagement at the Frank Lloyd Wright Trust, she connects audiences to architecture's power to shape how we live and think.

Her earlier career in museum education — including roles at the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Vermont's Fleming Museum — deepened her practice of meeting people exactly where they are. She continues to lead private tours at the Art Institute, where you're likely to find her talking about liminal spaces in art and artists' responses to change.

Alice brings rare range: rigorous scholarship, creative sensibility, and a lifelong fascination with what happens in the in-between.