Experience

Association of Science and Technology Centers

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editorial Advisory Board member, Dimensions magazine

  • Oct 2013 - Present

  This is a volunteer position, assisting the editor of the award-winning, bi-monthly magazine, Dimensions. Editorial Advisory Board members assist the editor in creating themes and recruiting writers for the magazine. This is a volunteer position, assisting the editor of the award-winning, bi-monthly magazine, Dimensions. Editorial Advisory Board members assist the editor in creating themes and recruiting writers for the magazine.



The Children's Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Outreach & Public Programs Manager

  • Aug 1997 - Present

  • Present more than 400 programs per year to students in grades PreK-8; creation of new outreach and museum floor programming; budget for all outreach and floor programs; recruit, train and evaluate both paid and volunteer staff. Maintain equipment; work with staff on education programs; create lesson plans and materials for teacher training; evaluate exhibits; create marketing for programs; administer Museum Facebook page. • Created more than a dozen new programs for outreach including school assembly demonstrations and hands-on classroom programs and presentations for the STARLAB portable planetarium. • Tripled outreach revenues and doubled outreach attendance during my tenure. • Managed the Family Science Sunday (FSS) program, including program content, staff training and management, booking subcontractors, budget management, forging partnerships with community organizations and other informal education institutions. • Created floor programs for museum visitors. • Produce, script, and star in cable access science program, “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Science!" • Chair of National Education Outreach Network (NEON) 2006-present. Responsible for annual day-long session at annual conference of the Association of Science and Technology Centers, and facilitating communications of outreach professionals across the world. • Originator and organizer of Outreach Live: New England, a one day event where outreach professionals from science centers around New England provide free programming to an under-served school districts in Massachusetts, and other museum staff have the opportunity to observe/brainstorm with their peers. • Attendee of eleven ASTC conferences. Presenter at over two dozen sessions, including those on outreach, inquiry, demonstrations and hands-on programming. • Author of five manuals on science demonstrations. • Graduate of three year training course “Building Evaluation Capacity,” a program of The Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. Show less



Maryland Science Center

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Outreach Specialist

  • Sep 1993 - Aug 1997

  Job Responsibilities • Worked with eight – member team of Traveling Science Program. Topics presented in both outreach and public programs included chemistry, flight, combustion, science of sports and electricity. • Assisted with marketing, registration and equipment maintenance. Accomplishments • Co-created five new outreach programs. • Co-created marketing materials, including brochures, posters, direct mailings and a video. Job Responsibilities • Worked with eight – member team of Traveling Science Program. Topics presented in both outreach and public programs included chemistry, flight, combustion, science of sports and electricity. • Assisted with marketing, registration and equipment maintenance. Accomplishments • Co-created five new outreach programs. • Co-created marketing materials, including brochures, posters, direct mailings and a video.