Do you miss chatting with your colleagues and friends as you walked from session to session during our conference? Do you miss exchanging ideas about best practices, new programs, or how to stop a leak with only duct tape? Did you attend a specific session that blew your mind during our 2021 program and want to delve further into a topic?

Join us for Cafe on the Commons: Working with History to chat about all things related to working with history!

This session will be moderated by Laura B. Roberts, former executive director of the New England Museum Association. As a consultant, Laura Roberts works with cultural nonprofits on strategic planning, assessment, staff and board training, and organizational development. She teaches museum management at Harvard University and Bank Street College of Education. She was executive director of the New England Museum Association and director of education at three history museums in New England. Laura is the chair of the board of Central Square Theater in Cambridge, MA, and a board member at History Cambridge, where she chairs the program committee. She is former chair of the Tufts Art Gallery advisory board and Mass Humanities. Laura holds an M.B.A. from Boston University and an M.A. from the Cooperstown Graduate Program.

This networking session may be of interest to museum professionals and volunteers, historical society members and volunteers, and all public history practitioners who regularly work with history in its many representations.

Admittance to this event is included in the 2021 Mass History Conference registration fee. To claim your free registration, use your promo code to register in Eventbrite. If you did not register for the Mass History Conference, you can register here for $5.

Questions? Contact registration@masshistoryalliance.org.