Hunter Miller Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

- Maintain an inviting, safe, fun, and educational experience on the museum floor in both visitor services and gallery positions.- Manage all aspects of the museum's birthday party program, which brings in earned revenue of $25k and 3,000 visitors per year. Responsibilities include operations, contact with visitors, maintaining financial records, developing new themes and activities, and managing a team of three to four interns that assisted in the program.- Develop and lead in-person and virtual programs on a variety of science topics both to the general public and school groups. During the museum’s closure in 2020, my programming responsibilities were heightened and I led as many as fifteen to twenty unique programs a month.- Worked within the marketing department creating new digital marketing strategies as well as visual and copy content for social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and editorial work for content on the museum’s website.- Designed and executed a summer camp teaching about the science of food and cooking with a team of eight interns and a co-teacher under my direction. Lesson plans for the camp consisted of activities to cover the full four day camp for eight hours a day with a group of thirty two students ranging from 7-12 years of age.- Developed a training manual for use in onboarding new visitor services staff members.

Bloomington, Indiana, United States

- Worked with a small team to create hand-crafted, artisan baked goods originating from various regions across Italy.- Assisted in developing recipes and lessons for cooking classes led at the bakery.- Created promotional materials for aforementioned cooking courses.

Bloomington, Indiana, United States

- Led groups, ranging from small walk-up visitors to scheduled class groups up to thirty students, on tours through the house museum detailing its history.- Curated, designed, and installed the exhibit “Food Preservation in the 19th Century” displayed in the museum and on their website.- Worked extensively with planning and execution of major annual events such as Haunted Wylie and Wylie House by Candlelight.- Conducted research on the Wylie family and related histories utilizing the historical collections maintained at the museum.

Hot Springs, South Dakota, United States

- Led tours of diverse groups across a wide range of ages and backgrounds through the active paleontological dig site located in the museum.- Developed a digital tour for smart phones that offered an alternative walkthrough of the dig site geared towards family groups.- Led school visits with elementary age children including specialized tours and experiments and taught classes in an emulated dig site.- Refined the museum's educational kits to make classroom use more streamlined with better organization, consistent formatting, and thorough information for teachers.- Worked directly with the museum's paleontological collections in preparation and exhibit installation.

Bloomington, Indiana, United States

- Developed educational materials to pair with the museum's rotating exhibits including activity guides for families and an audio tour.- Created a curriculum guide and artifact kit utilizing the museum's K-12 Education Collection, including over fifteen artifacts and all the materials needed for six unique lessons on food and material culture.- Assisted in leading K-12 class tours throughout the exhibit hall alongside the Director of Programming and Education.- Co-curated an exhibit of artifacts from the ethnomusicological collection on music's relationship with animals.- Worked in general research and collections care for both the education and permanent collections, including assisting in exhibit design and installation.- Worked hands-on with museum events such as guest lectures and family craft days to help plan, set up, and execute the programs.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

- Led lectures and classwork with students in geometry and algebra II high school summer math classes.- Worked individually with students taking the classes remedially to ensure a full understanding of subjects covered.- Graded assignments and exams.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

- Developed and led lectures, activities, and experiments for middle school science classes at International Baccalaureate certified Center for Inquiry School 84. - Created, assigned, and graded homework, projects, and exams.