The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice

Kacie Lucchini Butcher

Credentials: Director of the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History

Pronouns: she/her/hers

A woman sits before a patterned gray backdrop. Her mid-length purple hair is worn parted in the middle, and it features soft curls. She wears a pair of two-toned acetate eyeglasses with a rounded catseye shape. Beneath a dark green motorcycle jacket featuring a python print, she wears a simple black top. She always wears two silver chains around her neck. A small silver ring hangs from her septum.

Kacie Lucchini Butcher is an award-winning public historian whose work is dedicated to building empathy and advancing social justice. She is currently the Director of the Rebecca M. Blank Center for Campus History, formerly known as the UW-Madison Public History Project — a university-wide effort to uncover and give voice to the histories of discrimination, exclusion, and resistance on campus. The project culminated in the Sifting & Reckoning physical and digital exhibitions, public lectures, curricular materials and more, that give space for the Madison community to reckon with this history. The Center was opened in summer of 2023 to continue and expand upon that work.