Tasty Issues Served Up Monthly

One of our goals here at NEMA is to give you more opportunity for informal professional development. And to meet that goal, we host "Lunch with NEMA," a FREE monthly webinar from noon - 1 p.m. on the last Wednesday of each month. Each month highlights a different discussion topic.


June 30, 2021
Noon- 1 pm

Laura Desmond, Curator, Frederic Remington Art Museum, Jakub Janiga, Janiga Design, and Ernesto Mendoza, One By Design


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May 26, 2021
Noon-1 pm

Jill Foster, Director of School and Group Programs, Discovery Museum 

April 28, 2021
Noon-1 pm

Angela Marie Esposito, AKBD/LEED, Senior Manager of Education and Experience, Chicago Architecture Center

March 31, 2021
Noon-1 pm

Elisa Kosarin, CVA, Twenty Hats

February 24, 2021
Noon - 1 pm

Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis, MA, CMS, Principal, Yellow Room Consulting

January 27, 2021
Noon-1 pm

Nicole Mello,  National Park Ranger, Longfellow House—Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site

October 28, 2020
Webinar

Donna Ann Harris, Principal Heritage Consulting Inc.

September 30, 2020
Noon - 1 pm

Jenny Gilbert, Director of Institutional Advancement, Mount Auburn and Roberto Mighty, Artist, Mary Bichner, Artist, Patrick Gabridge, Artist, and Jesse Aron Green, Artist

August 26, 2020
Noon - 1 pm

Betsy Loring, expLoring exhibits & engagement, LLC, and and Alexander Goldowsky, Ed.D, of Interact, LLC

July 29, 2020
Webinar

Greg Trefry and Jenny Lim, VOXPOP, and Lane Sparkman, Associate Director of Education and Public Programs, RI Department of State

June 24, 2020
Webinar

Jenn Little, Chief Creative Thinker, Jenn Little Media

May 27, 2020
Webinar

Carole Ann Penney, CPC, Strategic Career Coach | Speaker | Organizational Consultant

April 29, 2020
Webinar

Shana Hawrylchak, Facilities Project and Operations Manager, Perkins School for the Blind and TG Gallagher Mechanical Contractors

March 25, 2020
Webinar

Dan Yaeger, Executive Director, New England Museum Association

February 26, 2020
Webinar

Brooke DiGiovanni Evans,  Interim Director of Learning, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Regie Gibson, Poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator, and educator

January 29, 2020
Webinar

Joseph April, Director of Development, Strawbery Banke Museum

October 30, 2019
Webinar

Emily Robertson, Independent Museum Professional, Boston, MA

September 25, 2019
Webinar

Sarah Sims, Director of Visitor Engagement and Accessibility, Missouri Historical Society, and Abbie Diaz

August 28, 2019
Webinar

Jess Moyer, Associate, Research Interpretation & Application, FrameWorks Institute & Hannah Pickard, NNOCCI Program Manager, New England Aquarium

July 31, 2019
Webinar

Michelle Carroll, Associate Director of External Programming, End Rape On Campus

May 29, 2019
Webinar

Sarah Sutton, We Are Still In; Rodney Rowland, Strawbery Banke Museum; and Steve Smith,  ECHO,  Leahy Center for Lake Champlain

April 24, 2019
Webinar

Sophie Huget, Director, New Britain Industrial Museum

March 27, 2019
Webinar

Meg Winikates, poet & museum educator

February 27, 2019
Webinar

Samantha Diamond, Founder and CEO, CultureConnect

January 30, 2019
Webinar

Erin Wederbrook Yuskaitis, Co-Director of Education, Programming & Visitor Learning, Old North Church & Historic Site

October 31, 2018
Webinar

Dan Yaeger and Marieke Van Damme, Museum People hosts, and Jen Duckett, NEMA YEP Co-Chair

September 26, 2018
Webinar

Lisa Marcinkowski June, PhD Candidate in Adult Learning at UConn

July 25, 2018
Webinar

Phillip Cox,  Associate Strategist, LaPlaca Cohen

June 27, 2018
Webinar

Austin Sharpe, Director of Security, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy

May 30, 2018
Webinar

Cinnamon Catlin Legutko, President/CEO, Abbe Museum

March 28, 2018
Webinar

Connie Cox Bodner, Ph.D., Supervisory Grants Management Specialist, Office of Museum Services, Institute of Museum and Library Services

February 28, 2018
Webinar

Nicole Mues, Courses Coordinator for Museum School and Jenny Powers, Family Engagement Coordinator, Springfield Museums

November 29, 2017
Webinar

Susan Wilkening, Principal,  Wilkening Consulting

September 27, 2017
Webinar

Dan Yaeger, Executive Director, New England Museum Association

August 30, 2017
Webinar

John W. Jacobsen, museum analyst, planner, producer, and president of White Oak Associates, Inc. 

July 26, 2017

Seth Worby, founder, Champ Internet Solutions

June 29, 2017
Web Conference

Brian Cofrancesco, Head of Education at Connecticut’s Old State House, Connecticut Public Affairs Network, Inc.,

April 26, 2017
Web Conference

Betsy Loring, Director of Exhibits and Alice Promisel, Exhibit Content Developer, EcoTarium

March 29, 2017
Webinar

GEMM co-founders Anne W. Ackerson and Joan H. Baldwin; and GEMM committee members Scarlett Hoey, NEMA YEP PAG Co-chair and Program Manager at ArtsWorcester and Matthew Dickey, Director of Development at Gore Place

February 22, 2017
Web Conference

Laura Ewing-Mahoney, Principal, Sage Advancement Group

October 26, 2016
Web Conference

Mary Garcia Charumilind, Senior Business Development Associate, DataArts

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September 28, 2016
Web Conference

Cynthia Robinson, Director of Museums Studies, Tufts University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Museum Education

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August 31, 2016
Web Conference

Benjamin Haavik, Team Leader of Property Care, and Nicole Chalfant, Collection Manager, Historic New England

We are pleased to be co-hosting this webinar with Connecting to Collections Care Online Community.

July 27, 2016

Web Conference
Lynn Robinson Leary, Visual Development Specialist, Enhance a Colour

June 29, 2016
Web Conference

John Boudreau, Education Programs Marketing Coordinator, Mystic Seaport

May 25, 2016
Web Conference

 Jessica Bitely, Preservation Specialist, Northeast Document Conservation Center

April 27, 2016
Web Conference

Pradeep Aradhya, CEO, Novus Laurus, LLC

March 30, 2016
Web Conference

Erica Wheeler, Museum Consultant

February 24, 2016
Web Conference

Mara Lieberman, Executive/Artistic Director, Bated Breath Theatre Company

January 27, 2016
Web Conference

Ushma Shah, Action Data Systems and John Rodman, Director of Museum Experience, The Preservation Society of Newport County

October 28, 2015
Web Conference

Sarah Sutton, Principal, Sustainable Museums

September 30, 2015
Webinar

Dan Yaeger, Executive Director, New England Museum Association

August 26, 2015
Webinar

Dan Yaeger, Executive Director and Meg Winikates, Membership and Advocacy Manager, New England Museum Association, and State Senator Eric Lesser, co-chair of the Massachusetts Committee on Tourism, Arts & Culture

July 29, 2015
Web Conference

William Hosley, Terra Firma Northeast, Cultural Resource Marketing & Development Consultant

June 24, 2015
Web Conference

Laura Ewing-Mahoney, Principal, Sage Advancement Group

May 27, 2015
Web Conference

Marilyn Weiss Cruickshank, Creative Simplicity Organizing & Productivity

April 29, 2015
Web Conference

Museum Insurance Experts from Gowrie Group – Kristen Lincoln, Dan Cooney, and Tom Davidson.

March 25, 2015
Web Conference

Bill Blanchfield, Functions Manager, Historic New England

February 25, 2015
Web Conference

John Beck, Deputy Director, ArtsBoston

January 28, 2015
Web conference

Dan Yaeger, Executive Director, New England Museum Association

October 29, 2014
Web conference

Cinnamon Catlin Legutko, President/CEO, Abbe Museum

September 24, 2014
Web Conference

Tim Cook, President, TrekSolver, Inc.

August 27, 2014
Web Conference

Ann Black, Director of Development, Strawbery Banke Museum

July 30, 2014

Web conference
Anne Ackerson and Mary Case

June 25, 2014
Web Conference

NEMA Young and Emerging Museum Professionals PAG Co-chairs Amanda Gustin, Public Programs Coordinator, Vermont Historical Society, and Ashley Martin, Assistant to the Executive Director, Harvard Museums of Science & Culture

May 28, 2014
Web Conference

Gregor Trinkaus-Randall, Preservation Specialist at the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

April 30, 2014
Web Conference

Linda Norris and Rainey Tisdale, co-authors of Creativity in Museum Practice

March 26, 2014
Web Conference

Jillian Finkle, Past President, International Museum Theatre Alliance

February 26, 2014
Web Conference

Craig Tuminaro, Director of Guest Experience, Peabody Essex Museum

January 29, 2014
Web conference

Christina Inge, Vice President of Marketing, EdTrips

September 25, 2013
Presenting With Power: How to give a great session at NEMA or wherever you might be speaking.

Dan Yaeger, Executive Director, New England Museum Association
Recording is available here: https://youtu.be/5Tev5-6p5tM

August 28, 2013
Advice for Mid-career Museum Professionals

Marilyn Hoffman, Museum Search & Reference
Recording is available here: https://youtu.be/uNT9LIOPxMU

July 31, 2013
"Oh Rats": Integrated Pest Management

Adam Osgood, Collections Technician, Collections and Conservation Center, Historic New England
Recording is available here: https://youtu.be/MbL8gfUab3o