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Minnesota Historical Society, December 2017-Present 

Program Associate, Guest Experience and Educational Services 

  • Project Manager for the Program Development Team at Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote Historic Site

  • Document meetings, document decisions, and coordinate budget work for the Program Development Team at Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote Historic Site

  • Strengthen guest engagement through the development of interpretive public programs  

  • Develop engaging programs for MNHS historic sites through research, writing, and community collaboration

  • Establish and group community partnerships and cultivate collaborative programming work with community partners

  • Support the Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote Historic Site Community Engagement team by documenting meetings, documenting decisions, coordinating budget work, and coordinating and staffing community events

  • Coordinate social media efforts for Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote Historic Site

  • Develop and deliver staff training for frontline staff at Historic Fort Snelling at Bdote Historic Site

  • Develop and deliver public programs for the Minnesota Historical Society

Minnesota Historical Society, September 2016-December 2017

Interpreter II, Minnesota History Center

  • Conduct interpretive programs within museum exhibits

  • Support ongoing museum operations such as maintenance, safety, and cleaning

  • Create a welcoming educational environment in the History Center exhibits by actively utilizing a variety of interpretive techniques

  • Delivering excellent customer service

  • Conduct museum lessons, theater programs, and other museum programs

  • Study and master program and exhibit related historical materials

  • Conduct exhibit-based programs for school-aged audiences

Minnesota Historical Society, March 2016-December 2017 

Interpreter II, Historic Ft. Snelling 

  • Communicate historical information using multiple interpretive techniques

  • Receive, welcome, and orient visitors to the historic site 

  • Conduct history workshops, tours, camp programs, and educational programs for school groups

  • Study site-related historical materials to enhance the delivery of site’s interpretive program

  • Assist in the maintenance and protection of the historic site grounds, facility and collections

  • Perform sales and admission services accurately and according to procedures

  • Provide warm, welcoming, and positive environment for visitors and staff through exceptional customer service

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Lincoln Log Cabin Foundation, May 2015-May 2016

Graduate Assistant

  • Plan and execute special events, educational programs, and living history programming including hearth cooking, chicken butchering, historic garment construction, and historic gardening

  • Develop interpretive and educational programming and conduct historical research for use in interpretive and educational programming

  • Schedule, staff, and coordinate school group visits

  • Schedule, staff, and coordinate volunteer weekly/monthly schedule

  • Utilize public speaking skills to convey information, themes, and narratives to diverse audience during site tours and daily interpretive programming

  • Provide leadership, assign tasks, and collaborate with undergraduate intern

  • Develop accurate 19th century garden plan and conduct daily historic agricultural tasks including crop cultivation, animal care, and building maintenance

  • Develop social media presence

Rockingham County Circuit Court Clerk's Office, January 2014-January 2015

County Courthouse Conservation Team 

  • Ensure that public records are maintained and available throughout their life cycle

  • Inventory historic court/government documents that the County possesses

  • Process and file antique chancery cases through the Library of Virginia

  • Organize and re-list documents to be used as a both a County and academic resource

  • Handle, conserve, and preserve antique documents

     

Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia, March 2013-April 2015

Costumed Interpreter 

  • Interpret the history of migration and settlement in Northeastern North America through the use of clothing, activities, and material culture to the general public

  • Utilize and develop public speaking skills to convey information, themes, and narratives to diverse audience

  • Perform daily historic agricultural tasks, including tobacco cultivation, tobacco harvesting, tobacco curing, corn cultivation, and kitchen garden development

  • Perform living history farm duties, including firewood splitting, rail splitting, fence construction, log structure building, and log structure maintenance

  • Provide an accurate, positive, and meaningful experience to visitors

  • Present educational programs to visiting school-children, grades K-12

  • Research documents and material culture pertinent to site activities

     

Legends and Lies: The Real West, "James 'Wild Bill' Hickock: Plains Justice," TV Series, December 2014

Actress (Sarah Shull)

  • Utilize public speaking skills to deliver dialogue with appropriate diction and emotion

  • Apply constructive criticism from director to develop performance

  • Collaborate with other actors to execute scenes

  • Create and construct character-appropriate period-correct mid-19th century wardrobe

     

Field of Lost Shoes, film, June 2013-July 2013

Assistant Women's Dresser

  • Costume actors and film extras in period-correct mid-19th century wardrobe

  • Construct accurate mid-19th century women’s garments

  • Develop creative methods for replicating 19th century garments on a small budget

     

Bob Evans Restaurant, February 2011-May 2013

Waitress/Hostess

  • Serve customers in a polite, efficient manner

  • Utilize ability to think quickly and manage multiple tasks at once

     

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