Jackie Barton
Jackie Barton is the Director of Education and Outreach at the Ohio Historical Society in Columbus, OH. This busy division includes a range of activities: teacher professional development programs, National History Day in Ohio, field services, administrative support for partnership organizations, public programming, school programs, and more. Jackie has also managed OHS’ American Association of Museums reaccreditation process, strategic planning efforts, heritage tourism projects, and the Ohio Civil War 150. Before coming to OHS, Jackie worked as a consultant with Mary Means + Associates, where she managed and executed community-based planning processes around heritage and cultural tourism, historic preservation, neighborhood and downtown revitalization, heritage areas, and related initiatives. In that capacity, she served as the project manager on heritage tourism plans for Colorado and Pennsylvania, an assortment of state and national heritage area plans, and the historic preservation plan for Arlington, VA, to name a few.
Bob Beatty
Bob Beatty is Vice President for Programs for the American Association for State & Local History where he directs AASLH’s professional development program including workshops, an annual meeting, AASLH’s active affinity groups and other initiatives, and publications as editor of History News and a member of the AASLH Editorial Advisory Board. From 1999-2007 he directed the Education Department at the Orange County Regional History Center, in Orlando, Florida where he established multiple community outreach programs including school partnerships, youth and family activities, adult programming, and over fifty community partnerships ranging from Boys and Girls clubs to community affinity groups.
Tracy Bryan
Tracy is the Site Manager at Virginia House, a 16th-century English manor house transported to Richmond, VA in the 1920s and owned by the Virginia Historical Society. She serves as a regional rep on the AASLH State Leadership Team.
Pamela Carter Carlisle
Pamela (Carter) Carlisle grew up in New Hampshire and has a B.A. from Smith College in American Studies and Sociology (minor) and an M.A. in History with an emphasis on Public History from Arizona State University. She wrote her thesis about a Presbyterian mission for tuberculars in Phoenix, developed an archive for its present-day hospital and has an interest in the history of medicine. She has worked with tribal entities and programs in Alaska as a VISTA volunteer (‘domestic Peace Corps’), as a National Park Service Historian, Archaeologist (trainee) and Museum Technician and as Assistant Site Supervisor of an archaeology excavation in the Aleutian Islands. She came to Louisiana in 2005 to be the Local History and Public Outreach Specialist at the Bossier Parish Library Historical Center. She served on the Centennial Committee and developed exhibits and programs for the Bossier City Centennial in 2007, was responsible for the initial conversion of the Historical Center’s collections database to PastPerfect and PastPerfect Online. She conducts oral history interviews and plans and researches some of the Historical Center’s exhibits. Along with an exhibit on Caddo Indian pottery, tools and culture, her favorite one to work on was Homemade and Homeraised in Bossier Parish, Bossier Parish Food 1910’s – 1960’s. She recently worked with the local arts council on a regional commemoration of the Great Depression.
Lillian Choy
Lillian is the Assistant Public Programs Manager at the Homestead Museum, located near Los Angeles, CA, where her responsibilities include coordinating public programs; managing design projects; and assisting with on- and off-site exhibits. Lillian is currently on the board of the Museum Educators of Southern California and has served on the AASLH Annual Meeting program committee. Outside of the museum world, Lillian can be found running, hiking, cycling, or eating, all in copious amounts.
Linnea Grim
As the Hunter J. Smith Director of Education and Visitor Programs at Monticello, Linnea oversees the daily interpretive efforts at a site dedicated to preserving and sharing Thomas Jefferson’s ideas. Linnea has also held positions in the Curator’s Office at the Supreme Court of the United States and with the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. She earned a B.A. in history from the College of William and Mary, a M.A. in history museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program, and was a member of the 2009 Seminar for Historical Administration.
Tim Grove
Tim Grove writes the “History Bytes” column in AASLH’s quarterly publication History News. When he’s not doing that, he is chief of Education for the National Air and Space Museum’s main building in D.C.
Stacy Klingler
Stacy Klingler leads a relatively ordinary life as assistant director of Local History Services at the Indiana Historical Society, a member of the Field Services Alliance, and the Chair of the AASLH Small Museums Committee. She travels Indiana assisting local history organizations with everything from strategic planning to numbering artifacts. In her abundant spare time, she chases her 15-month-old daughter, hikes, sends her stay-at-home-dad husband to teach philosophy to eager 18-year-olds, naps, and enjoys organic produce delivered weekly to her doorstep by a formerly-Amish farmer.
Stephanie Long
Stephanie serves as the Senior Curator of Collections for the four City of Las Cruces Museums in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She also has worked with museums in Colorado, New York, and Nevada. Stephanie earned her B.A. in History from Duke University, Masters of Computer Information Systems from the University of Denver, and M.A. in History Museums Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. She was a member of the 2008 Seminar for Historical Administration and served on this year’s Annual Meeting program committee. This is her first attempt at blogging.
Kyle McKoy
Kyle is the Director of the Education & Outreach Division for the Arizona Historical Society. Ms. McKoy’s specialty is developing museum programs that integrate communities, classrooms, and cultural institutions. She is the author of an award winning 4th grade Social Studies textbook, the Arizona Story, and most recently, is the Project Director for a mid-level reader, Esperanza Means Hope, an historical fiction children’s literature book about 1870s Tucson. In addition, she is the State Coordinator for National History Day in Arizona. She serves on many boards of directors including the Arizona Centennial Education Committee, National History Day in Arizona Advisory Board, and is also a member of several committees for the American Association for State and Local History. She holds a BA in Anthropology and an MA in Language, Reading, and Culture from the University of Arizona.
Rhonda Newton
Rhonda Newton is the Program Coordinator at the Pennsylvania Heritage Society, the nonprofit partner of the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, based in Harrisburg. Since 2003, Rhonda has worked with teachers participating in three Teaching American History grants. She now also handles administrative functions for PHS, including managing a number of federal grants. She is the outgoing chair of AASLH’s Professional Development Committee and a member of the SHA Class of 2007.
Linda Norris
Linda Norris is managing partner of Riverhill, a firm specializing in interpretation, planning and exhibitions for museums and communities. You can find her blogging regularly at The Uncataloged Museum (http://uncatalogedmuseum.blogspot.com). Her work ranges from projects in her home state of New York to Ukraine, where she spent four months this year as a Fulbright Scholar.
Andy Verhoff
Andy Verhoff is the Local History Coordinator in the Ohio Historical Society’s Local History Office. Andy’s is a resource person for Ohio’s local historical organizations and local historians as they work to preserve and share their communities’ histories. He administers programs for OHS’s partner in local history, the Ohio Association of Historical Societies & Museums, and works with communities around the state to erect Ohio Historical Markers. Andy came to the Local History Office from OHS’s Campus Martius and Ohio River Museums in Marietta, where he was site manager and responsible for the day-to-day operation of both museums and the towboat W.P. Snyder Jr. He was part of the team that raised more than $170,000 for the preservation of the towboat W.P. Snyder Jr. and has helped to raise more than $10,000 to pay for field trips for area school kids to Campus Martius. This is Andy’s second “tour of duty” in the Local History Office. He worked there from 1998 to 2003 as a Historical Agency Consultant and for two years was the Chair of the Field Services Alliance. From 1994 to 1997, he was a curator at the Ross County Historical Society in Chillicothe. A native of Ottawa, Ohio in the northwest part of the state, he received his BA in history from Ohio University and his MA, also in history, from Indiana University, Indianapolis.
Scott Wands
Scott manages the CHC’s non-grant-funded services to Connecticut’s cultural heritage community. The Heritage Resource Center (HRC) organizes and distributes current thinking and best practices in the museum field and includes both a lending library and comprehensive Web site. Scott also oversees the CHC’s field services offerings, including leadership forums, seminars, and workshops for museum professionals. Prior to joining the staff of the CHC in March of 2008, Scott worked for five years for Connecticut Landmarks as Assistant Curator of Education. A graduate of the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware (MA) and Amherst College (BA), Scott serves as Region 2 Chair for Awards and Membership for AASLH (RI, CT, NY, NJ) and is a former board member of the CT League of History Organizations.
