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Staff
Nicolette Blum Meister
Director & NAGPRA Coordinator, Logan Museum of Anthropology; Faculty Director, Center for Collections Care; Instructor, Museum Studies
Leeann Ream
Center for Collections Care Postgraduate Fellow
Mission
The Center’s distinctive community of practice empowers participants to be effective stewards of diverse collections by building knowledge and skills through hands-on training and instruction in collections care.
Advisory Board
The volunteer Advisory Board brings a range of knowledge and expertise to their roles to help guide and grow the Center for Collections Care at Beloit College. Board composition prioritizes representation from diverse types and sizes of cultural heritage organizations and aspires to be inclusive of historically underrepresented and excluded voices in the cultural heritage sector. Board composition is as follows:
- Rachel Allen (Nez Perce); Ph.D. candidate, Art History and Curatorial Studies, University of Delaware
- Bob Beatty; President, The Lynhurst Group (history, museum, and nonprofit consulting firm)
- Jennifer Hain-Teper; Adjunct Professor, School of Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Preservation Librarian and Head, Preservation Services, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
- Cricket Harbeck; Owner, Cricket Harbeck LLC (objects conservation studio)
- Nicolette B. Meister; Advisory Board Chair, Faculty Director, Center for Collection Care, Beloit College
- Angela Neller (Kānaka ʻōiwi, Native Hawaiian); Curator, Wanapum Heritage Center
- Emily Starck ’14; Assistant Collections Manager Anthropology, The Field Museum
- Sharon Welton; Executive Director, Stephenson County Historical Museum, Freeport, IL
- William Warner Wood; Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies Graduate Certificate Program Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Jada Wright-Greene; Founder & Editor of Heritage Salon Magazine, Independent Museum Professional and Author