Desiree Mobed appointed director.
John Mayer appointed first executive director. Mayer is the former curator of museum collections at the Maine Historical Society.
Sue Kim appointed vice president of development.
BCM staff Anna Housely Juster, Sr. Director Child Development & Community Engagement and Saki Iwamoto, Educator Health & Wellness recently authored an article in the Winter Edition of The Forum – the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The article is about the importance of play in a child’s healthy development, and specifically refers to the museum’s efforts to partner with doctors and other community organizations to reach parents and families.
Kledia Spiro appointed marketing manager.
Rebecca Wright appointed director of development.
Daniel Fish appointed program and membership assistant.
Linda Steigleder, museum president and CEO, has announced she will be stepping down in November after five years.
Martha Tedeschi appointed director. She will formally assume her duties in July.
Jackie Delamatre appointed curator of education.
Dugan Murphy appointed director.
Marita Rivero appointed executive director. Rivero, the former vice president and general manager for radio and TV at WGBH, has served as the museum’s interim director since Beverly Morgan-Welch left for the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture last fall.
Todd Sperry appointed senior vice president for marketing strategy and communications.
Mark Schmidt, the executive director for the Museums on the Green, was recently named a Board member to the Cape and Islands Historical Association as well as to the Falmouth Village Association business organization.
Nicholas R. Bell appointed senior vice president for curatorial affairs, a new position at the museum that will be responsible for the care, management, strategic development, and exhibition of the museum’s collections. Bell will assume the position June 1, 2016.
Angela Grove appointed Sacerdote Chair of Education.
Andres Verzosa appointed interim director.
Adrienne Turnbull-Reilly appointed Program Assistant.
Nathalie Apchin appointed chief financial officer.
Lynda Roscoe Hartigan appointed the James B. and Mary Lou Hawkes Deputy Director. Hartigan was formerly the chief curator.
Megan Fischer promoted to associate director.
Caroline Payson appointed executive director.
Cara Sutherland appointed executive director.
Kim Conaty appointed to curator.
After more than 30 years, Douglas Heuser, Co-Founder and Executive Director of SEE Science Center, Inc. has announced he will be stepping down.
Heather Haskell appointed vice president.
Kay Simpson appointed president.
Kristin Dodge has been promoted to director of development.
Tom Loughman appointed director and CEO.
Anne Butler Rice appointed to the new post of Georgette Auerbach Koopman Director of Education.
Claudine K. Brown, Assistant Secretary for Education and Access for the Smithsonian since 2010, passed away March 17 after a long battle with cancer. In addition to working in the museum and philanthropy communities, Brown also served for more than 20 years as a faculty advisor and instructor in the Leadership in Museum Education Program at Bank Street Graduate School of Education in New York City, giving her the opportunity to work with some of the preeminent museum evaluators, educators and thinkers in the field. Many of the more than 200 students Brown advised and taught are now directors of education and managers at art, history, natural history, science and children’s museums throughout the country.
In 2011, Brown was part of the NEMA Annual Conference keynote panel "Museums in the Mirror: Reflecting Relevance in a Diverse Society."