Carla White Freyvogel has been a museum educator for more than 20 years.  She started as a docent at the National Gallery of Art. After that she worked at the National Building Museum where she taught students to build geodesic domes and design cities. She also taught at the National Portrait Gallery.   She has been teaching at The Phillips Collection for seven years.  There she designs lessons, collaborates with the Inspired Teaching School of Washington DC, and gives tours to students from around the country.
 
Carla graduated from Oberlin with a degree in art history but she never experienced the sheer joy of museums until she became an educator.  She has returned to the National Gallery to teach in their multi-visit program called Art Around the Corner and in a their popular programs Drawing Salon and High School Studio Workshop.
 
As a pre-Title IX athlete, Carla can tell some good stories about running on boys and men's teams in high school and college.  Never considering herself a natural athlete, Carla trained compulsively until she had some success while at Oberlin.  The fact she is in the hall of fame is quite unbelievable to her.
 
Carla is still passionate about endurance sports. She is a competitive distance runner and a newly minted rower who competes in an 8 sweep boat for Rock Creek Rowers, a masters women’s team in Washington, DC.
 
Carla’s daughter, Grace Eginton, graduated in 2009 and was also a student-athlete, competing in field hockey and lacrosse.