Our Executive Director
Charity M. Counts
P.O. Box 6267
Fishers, IN 46038-6267
Phone: 1-888-724-4266
Email: ccounts(at)midwestmuseums.org
Our Board of Directors (Officers)
PRESIDENT
Katie Van Allen
Managing Director of Museum Services
Missouri History Museum
5700 Lindell Blvd St. Louis, MO 63112
Phone: 314-361-7291
VICE-PRESIDENT
Ben Garcia
Deputy Executive Director and Chief Learning Officer
Ohio History Connection
800 E. 17th Ave
Columbus, OH 43211
TREASURER
Cheryl Darr
Chief Financial Officer
The Magic House
516 S. Kirkwood Road
St. Louis, MO 63122
Phone: 314-288-2511
SECRETARY
Kate Kocienski
Vice President of Marketing and Communications
Grand Rapids Public Museum
272 Pearl Street NW
Grand Rapids, MI 49504
IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT
Lesley Wright
Director, Grinnell College Museum of Art
Grinnell College
145 Bucksbaum Center for the Arts
1108 Park Street
Grinnell, IA 50112
Phone: 641-269-4642
Our Board of Directors (At-Large)
Ellen Censky
President & CEO
Milwaukee Public Museum
800 West Wells Street
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Paul Fladten
Senior Public Relations Manager
Discovery World
500 N. Harbor Dr.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Danny Gonzales
Director, Exhibitions Research
Indiana Historical Society
450 W. Ohio St.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Kaman Hillenburg
Collections Manager
Evansville Museum of Arts, History & Science
411 SE Riverside Drive
Evansville, IN 47713
Joanne Jones-Rizzi
Vice President of Science, Equity, and Education
Science Museum of Minnesota
120 West Kellogg Boulevard
St. Paul, MN 55102
Charles Katzenmeyer
Vice President, Institutional Advancement
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605
Hathaway Maranda
Vice President of Development
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
4525 Oak Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
Whitney Owens
Chief Learning Officer
Cincinnati Museum Center
1301 Western Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45203
Brenda Raney
Deputy Director, Advancement and Community Engagement
Minnesota Historical Society
345 W. Kellogg Blvd.
St. Paul, MN 55102
Jennifer Scott
Anthropologist, Public Historian, and Curator
Part-time Assistant Professor, The New School, NY
Chicago, IL 60607
Dr. Charles Wash
Director
National Afro-American Museum & Cultural Center
1350 Brush Row Rd
Wilberforce, OH 45384
Gregory Wittkopp
Director, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research
Cranbrook Institute
39221 Woodward Ave.
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 48303-0801
Senior Advisors
Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
Director
Illinois State Museum
502 S. Spring St.
Springfield, IL 62706