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Announcing MACA's New Board Members!
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Dear MACA Members,
Thank you to all who voted in our recent MACA Board election. We are excited to announce new Board members for 2020-2021 for three of our positions – Vice Chair, Communications Chair, and Programming Chair. Our new Vice Chair is Jen Taggart, Assistant Department Head of Youth Services at the Bloomfield Township Public Library. Our new Communications Chair is Jennifer Kanyo, Director of Education at the Midland Center for the Arts. Our new Programming Chair is Emily O’Hara, Curator of Exhibit Design at the Detroit Zoological Society. Welcome and congratulations to all! To learn more about all of our new Board members, please see their bios below.
I would also like to thank our outgoing board members. Our outgoing Vice Chair, Jenny Angell, Associate Educator at the Detroit Institute of Arts, was elected during MACA’s first election in October 2017. Over the past two years, Jenny has assisted with a wide variety of tasks, while also helping to define the responsibilities for this position moving forward. Our outgoing interim Communications Chair, Bree Boettner, Manager of Education Programs at the Detroit Historical Society, has helped keep our newsletters going, our Facebook page updated, and any other communications tasks done during her time in this position since earlier this spring. Our last outgoing Board member is also an incoming Board member. Programming Chair since September 2018, Jen Taggart coordinated the details for our three programs earlier this year, each of which had a diverse array of speakers and was well-organized from pre-program registration to post-program survey. While Jen will no longer be our Programming Chair, we are excited to have her continuing on the Board as Vice Chair.
Again, thank you to our outgoing Board members, congratulations to our incoming Board members, and thank you to all of you for your continued support of MACA! I am looking forward to all that is yet to come!
Caroline Braden
Executive Chair
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Jen Taggart is Assistant Department Head of Youth Services and librarian responsible for the Youth Accessibility Support Collection at the Bloomfield Township Public Library. She served as MACA's Programing Chair from September 2018-December 2019. Jen has presented on accessibility in library services, programming, and collection development nationally in addition to creating the biennial Adaptive Umbrella Workshop for librarians and educators working with people who have disabilities. She also serves as Chair of the Special Needs Services Roundtable (SNSR) of Michigan librarians providing services for visitors with disabilities and as a member of the Autism Welcome Here: Library Programs, Services and More grant committee. In 2009, Jen received the Michigan Library Association Children’s Services Division Award of Merit and was named a Mover & Shaker by Library Journal in 2016. You can also find her blogging about inclusive services at www.adaptiveumbrella.blotspot.com. Jen received her BA in Art History from Oakland University and Master of Library and Information Science from Wayne State University.
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Communications Chair - Jennifer Kanyo
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Jennifer Kanyo serves as the Director of Education at the Midland Center for the Arts. She oversees the development of multidisciplinary programming for all ages for the Alden Dow Museum of Science & Art and the Midland Historical Society. Jennifer has worked in informal learning environments for over seven years. She received her BA in Art History with a minor in Cultural Studies from Pratt Institute and a Master of Arts degree from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts in Art History.
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Programming Chair - Emily O'Hara
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Emily O’Hara is the Curator of Exhibit Design for the Detroit Zoological Society, where she leads exhibit development for the Detroit Zoo and Belle Isle Nature Center. She previously worked at the Museum of Science, Boston, the Montshire Museum of Science, and the William G. Thompson House Museum & Gardens. Emily has a BA in Art from Albion College and an MA in Museum Studies from The Johns Hopkins University.
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