Resume

• 2020

  American Bar Foundation

  Chicago

  Illinois

  United States

  Associate Director

  American Bar Foundation

  Jefferson City

  Missouri

  As chief executive of museum

  developed and implemented new policies and procedures to overhaul all operations of multi-facility institution to achieve best practices

  resulting in significantly improved quality of staff and services for 250

  000 annual visitors and exhibits

  higher revenue generation

  and better management of important museum collections. Effectively maintained key relationships at highly visible and politically sensitive museum located in state capitol building. Directed and managed all exhibit planning

  research

  design

  and installation on multiyear cycle while working with state legislators and governor’s staff to ensure key areas of interest and that a wide variety of constituents were guaranteed relevant

  high-quality work while also reducing costs. Transferred all paper records to electronic museum database

  resulting in more efficient and effective curatorial practices. Performed all research and reporting for federal regulation concerning Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

  Director

  Missouri State Museum

  Columbia

  Missouri

  Administered all facets of recently opened museum including overseeing of all operations

  establishing public education programs

  and strengthening museum outreach and community visibility resulting in annual increases of visitors and income. Became the go-to expert throughout the community and schools on non-Western cultures. Maintained positive relationships and regular communication with key donors

  implementing new collections management system and the supervision of volunteers

  student researchers

  and employees. Worked with a team to comply with inventory and reporting for federal regulation on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.

  Curator

  University of Missouri

  Museum of Anthropology

• 2015

  Rotary Cosmopolitan

• 2012

  University of Illinois at Chicago

  DePaul University

  University of Missouri

  Museum of Anthropology

  University of Illinois at Chicago

  The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

  Chicago

  Designed and implemented a prestigious program with 140 mid-career business and community leaders for them to understand U.S. foreign policy and key global issues. Recruited and managed the selection process. Facilitated regular discussions on potentially polarizing topics with a large group of diverse leaders. \n•\tStrategically researched

  designed

  and implemented a curriculum

  which involved the development of 15 seminars per year

  monthly discussion salons

  private meetings with consuls general

  and other high-level events.\n•\tOversaw the annual research report process. Several reports distributed to U.S. Congress

  British Parliament

  and foreign policy institutions. \n•\tDesigned and managed group research trips to Washington

  D.C. for meetings with policy experts and legislators.

  Director

  Emerging Leaders Program

• 2009

  Heartland International

  University of Chicago Booth School of Business

  Chicago

  Analyzed key areas of U.S. foreign policy to create

  direct

  and evaluate long-term

  inclusive economic and social development projects in Kenya

  Nicaragua

  and Belize. Managed all logistics for training programs in Kenya

  with 20 highly successful American business owners

  and supervised internships for Kenyan entrepreneurs in Chicago. Managed a similar exchange program in Belize and Nicaragua. Developed and taught an online program focused on U.S. history and law to a group of international legislative fellows from Egypt and Morocco. Regularly assisted with short-term exchange projects involving journalists

  nonprofit professionals

  educators

  and young entrepreneurs.\n\n•\tWrote grant proposals and secured $800

  000 in funding from the U.S. State Department. Developed ongoing projects in each country

  including The Kenyan Young Entrepreneurs Association

  which has trained over 400 small business owners.\n•\tCreated a new network of partners in the U.S.

  Nicaragua

  and Belize to provide education about women’s rights and fight human trafficking.\n•\tFound and established strong relationships with NGO partners in Kenya

  Nicaragua

  and Belize and managed in-country staff.

  Program Director

  Heartland International

• 2008

  Masters of Science

  International Public Service

  DePaul University

• 2005

  Central Bancompany

  The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

  Missouri State Museum

  Jefferson City and Columbia

  Missouri

  Brought in to provide updated professional management of significant corporate art collection including purchase

  research

  exhibit

  conservation

  inventory

  insurance

  and public education. Implemented PastPerfect collection management system resulting in improved tracking of artwork

  conservation needs

  and insurance value.

  Art Curator

  Central Bancompany

  Chicago

  Develop and teach graduate level courses in international relations and conflict management

  international political economy

  cross-sector analysis

  research methods

  and policy development and analysis including study abroad courses taught in India.

  Adjunct Faculty

  DePaul University

  Chicago

  Developed and implemented a new

  highly selective scholarship program to provide a top-tier MBA to future leaders in the nonprofit and government sectors. Directed the national recruitment

  admissions

  financial aid

  and extensive co-curricular programming for scholars to enhance the relevance of their MBAs to their sectors. Directed marketing

  communications

  and data analysis. Managed budgeting

  reported to funders

  and assisted with donor development and relations.

  Director

  Civic Scholars Program

  University of Chicago Booth School of Business

• 1998

  City of Columbia Standing Committee on Public Art

  Board of Directors

  Columbia Art League

• 1994

  City of Columbia Cultural Affairs Commission

  Public Speaking

  Program Development

  Program Management

  Public Policy

  Grants

  International Development

  Fundraising

  Government

  Higher Education

  Qualitative Research

  Policy Analysis

  International Relations

  Nonprofits

  Capacity Building

  Policy

  Teaching

  Research

  Event Planning

  Community Outreach

  Strategic Planning

  Smart Defense and the Future of NATO:Can the Alliance Meet the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century?

  Smart Defense and the Future of NATO:Can the Alliance Meet the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century?

  An APGAR Test: Policy Analysis of EPA Regulation on Arsenic Levels in Drinking Water

  The Grayson Collection at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

  Long standing dissatisfaction with museum exhibits about Native Americans has come to the forefront of the museum industry in recent years. Claims of racism

  exclusion of a Native American voice in the exhibits

  and promoting stereotypes all have been prominent. The foundations of not only the museum industry

  but also the field of anthropology

  have contributed to difficulties with exhibits about non-Western cultures. The inaccurate portrayal of Native Americans in museums

  however

  is not primarily due to the lack of interest or knowledge about Native Americans. It is an essentialist paradigm that restricts museum professionals from appropriately dealing with the concept of change in cultures. The essentialist framework for defining people and cultures was drawn from the close relationship between biology and anthropology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The parallel developments in classification systems in both fields can be seen up through the mid-twentieth century. Biology

  however

  moved away from a strictly essentialist paradigm and began using a more materialist perspective after a synthesis of field and laboratory research. Anthropology

  instead

  began discounting Darwinian evolutionary theory as a tool for research and analysis at mid-century due to the difficulties of applying a materialist framework into classification systems for artifacts. Tribal identity and its definition are constantly changing. However

  museum professionals and Native Americans alike have a tendency to define this as if it is one thing and has remained constant throughout time. Idealized images of the past contribute to the concepts of loss of culture. The Osage are an example of a Native American group whose cultural changes have been well documented over the past three hundred years. They are used here to illustrate the need for accepting change in cultures and not applying a negative connotation to that change.

  Application of Darwinian Evolutionary Theory into the Exhibit Paradigm: Implementing a Materialist Perspective in Museum Exhibits about Native Americans

  Molly

• 1989

  Ph.D.

  Anthropology

  Master of Arts

  Art History

  Columbia University in the City of New York

  Values-Centered Leadership

  DePaul University

  Strategic Thinking

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