Kate Webber Email & Phone Number

Lewiston, ME, US

Augusta, Maine

Through education, advocacy, and community-based decision-making we work to shape a food system where our entire community of Lewiston-Auburn has access to good food.

Chair of the Conference Committee, member of the Programs Committee

Lewiston/Auburn, Maine Area

Cazenovia, NY

• Updated educational and promotional materials and for Rippleton Schoolhouse Immersion program.
• Compiled recommendations for future program and partnership opportunities.
• Assisted with public events, attended workshops, and wrote pieces for museum publications.

• Developed and implemented a program to use oral history audio to provoke dialogue in adult homes.
• Wrote and received grant to support the program.
• Helped plan and implement community dialogue program and digitized oral history recordings.
• Assisted first-year Research & Fieldwork class with online publication of oral history projects.

Cooperstown, NY

M.A. in Historic Museum Studies

New Lebanon, New York

• Conducted interviews of Rural Guides to create biographies for marketing and promotional materials.
• Created an Institutional Feedback Report and assisted with research on earned income possibilities.
• Served as program facilitator.

• Collaborated with staff on publicity for programming including press releases, online outreach, advertisements, and ongoing marketing connections.
• Worked with Director of Development on database management, gift acknowledgement, and planning and implementing fundraising efforts.
• Managed the “Humanities on Demand” podcast program as well as social media platforms and organizational website.

The book "Swan's Island Chronicles: Borrowed, exaggerated, and half-forgotten tales of island life," is based on articles written for the 'There was a time' column of the Working Waterfront. This book is a collection of island stories based on oral history work and historical research on Swan's Island, Maine. I also held a book tour of 17 talks in.

• Developed a sustainable volunteer base with recruitment, management, training and recognition.
• Worked with 3-5th and 6-8th grade students on two service-learning projects integrating multimedia storytelling and local history.
• Managed the oral history program through community interviews, digital archiving, transcription, and the creation and public exhibition of short audio pieces.
• Managed the digital history collection using PastPerfect and PastPerfect-Online software.

Freeport, Maine

• Designed and implemented a children’s archeology program, researched and led a tour of an archeological site, worked on archival cataloging, and served as a temporary administrative assistant.

Master'S Degree, Historical Museum Studies

Program through SUNY Oneonta

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Anthropology

Anthropology major with concentrations in 'Environment, Place & History' and 'Medieval Worlds'

Education record

Activities and Societies: Sea chanty class