Trevor Jones

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Trevor Jones is Director and CEO of the Nebraska State Historical Society. He believes that museum collections have the power to tell amazing stories, and has helped museums of all sizes rethink how artifact collections support their mission. Trevor holds BA degrees in history and German from Grinnell College, an MA degree in history and Certificate in Museum Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management Institute. The views expressed here are his alone and not his employer's.

Rainey Tisdale

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Rainey Tisdale is an independent museum professional who leads for change on a number of field-wide museum issues, including place-based interpretation, creative practice, collections stewardship, and the impact of museums on lifelong well-being. She has held curatorial positions at the AFL-CIO’s museum, the US Senate’s Office of Senate Curator, and the Bostonian Society, and she taught in the Museum Studies Program at Tufts University. She was a Fulbright Fellow in Helsinki, Finland, and a Community Fellow at Brown University’s Center for Public Humanities. In 2013 and 2014 she led #BostonBetter, an effort by 25 Boston-area cultural institutions to provide programming commemorating the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon Bombing. With Linda Norris, she is the co-author of Creativity in Museum Practice (Routledge, 2013). She has a BA in urban studies from Haverford College and an MA in Museum Studies from The George Washington University.

Elee Wood

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Elee Wood is the Nadine and Robert A. Skotheim Director of Education and Public Programs at The Huntington. She spent 13 years on the faculty of the Museum Studies Program at IUPUI and served as the Public Scholar of Museums, Families and Learning at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. Elee’s research includes the study of visitor-object experiences in museums, object-based learning, critical museum pedagogy, and evaluation capacity building. She published The Objects of Experience: Transforming Visitor-Object Encounters in Museums with Kiersten F. Latham (Routledge, 2013). Elee got her start in museums as a Wizard Wing youth volunteer at the Milwaukee Public Museum and worked as an exhibit developer and public programs manager at Minnesota Children’s Museum. She holds a PhD in Education for Community and MEd in Youth Development Leadership from the University of Minnesota and a BA in Dramatic Arts from Macalester College. Elee is also the former editor of the journal Museums & Social Issues.