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Ithaca, NY, US

Ithaca, NY

Strategic planning in collaboration with Director and other board members; consulted with Discovery Trail and local educators to re-boot Eight Square Schoolhouse program post-covid. Committees: Executive Committee, Fundraising Committee, Collections Committee (Chair), and Personnel Committee.

Ithaca, New York, United States

Cuneiform Tablet Collection, Department Of Near Eastern Studies

o Curated and managed operations, records, and reference collections for a dynamic team of international scholars collaborating to document and publish a research library of 10,000+ texts from ancient Mesopotamia. o Arranged tours/programming with museum visitors, alumni, parents, and student groups; conducted outreach to local public schools.o Worked with.

Ithaca, New York

Reported to VP of HR Mary Opperman, University President Martha Pollock, and members of the Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees. Worked with a wide range of Cornell staff, administrators, faculty, students, and outside consultants to address issues of broad importance for the campus community. Committee Work: o Retirement Plan Oversight.

Ithaca, NY

o Served with members of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ (Cayuga), Tutelo, Onondaga, and other Haudenosaunee Nations, along with Town officials and Cornell Cooperative Extension staff, to organize Cayuga-Tutelo First Nations Homecoming Festivals at Tutelo Park; designed interpretive park signs. o Recruited and led a team of community volunteers to reorganize Lake View.

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

o Developed interactive, web-based instructional materials. o Annotated photos of objects in Luna Insight as part of joint museum/library effort to improve digital access to and information about museum collections. o Co-authored a book-length exhibit catalog and curated a major exhibition (250+ objects) of prehistoric pottery from Ecuador, Peru, and.

Department Of Anthropology, Ithaca, NY

o Organized outreach programming for school groups, Reunion and Homecoming open houses, and events at the Cornell Club in NYC. o Coordinated collections-based student research projects, exhibits, and TV documentary by National Geographic’s Mummy Road Show. o Directed and managed a collection of over 13,000 ethnographic and archaeological items.o Supervised.

Watertown, NY

Coordinated all aspects of collections management and exhibit prep for a collection of over 100,000 photos, books, period clothing, furnishings, historic vehicles, industrial mill equipment, and other objects in the setting of a Victorian house-and-garden museum. Supervised volunteers and docents; assisted with planning of events ranging from tea parties.

Museum Of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MI

Managed ethnobotanical comparative collection of 35,000 items as well as archaeological and ethnographic artifacts; photographed and analyzed plant remains from archaeological sites in the American Southwest, Nebraska, Peru, and the Comoro Islands. Participated in harvest rate studies of wild plant foods and heirloom crop plants. Supervised undergraduate.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Magna Cum Laude, Anthropology/Archaeology

Phd Student, Anthropology/Archaeology

Master Of Science - Ms, Anthropology/Archaeology