Organizational Affiliations
2025 - Present - Volunteer with the Ulysses Historical Society
2020-2024 - Outreach & Community Engagement Coordinator for The History Center in Tompkins County
Public & Community History Projects
I am deeply passionate about preserving and stewarding the history of our community. I have pursued history projects in most positions I’ve held since 2017. My focus has always been on engaging the public with why history matters and how we can learn from and be inspired by our shared past.
I prioritize Indigenous, women’s, disabled, and non-white histories - with a particular focus on my home region of the Finger Lakes in central New York.
SECTIONS
Public & Community History Highlights
Local History Exhibits - Lead Curator
History Podcasts & Audio Projects
Public & Community History Highlights
Local History Exhibits - Lead Curator
History Podcasts & Oral History Projects
2022
Unfolding Exhibit; CAP ArtSpace, Ithaca
““I think that breaking down the narrative of who history museums are for and also what those collections hold is really our hope in exhibits like this,” Van Nostrand said. “The hope is that if we get the community to feel that their stories are respected and represented accurately by us and within our institution that communities will feel more open to sharing their history with us again in the future and collaborating with us, which means that we continue to be more inclusive and representative of the history of the community.””
Zoë Van Nostrand, The Ithacan, Exhibit honors history of Ithaca’s women’s suffragists, September 1 2021