Executive Board

President
Dominick Miller
Chief of Marketing
Mackinac State Historic Parks
Mackinaw City/Mackinac Island
MillerD44 at michigan dot gov

Vice President
Melanie Parker
Curator
Ilitch Holdings
Detroit
parkerms515 at gmail dot com

Treasurer

Eric Gollannek

Executive Director

Saugatuck-Douglas History Center

Douglas

director at mysdhistory dot org

Secretary

Regina Gorham

Collections Manager

Kalamazoo Valley Museum

Kalamazoo

rgorham at kvcc dot edu

MMA Board of Directors
2026 Meeting Schedule

All meetings are 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
and held via Zoom unless noted otherwise

January 15: Zoom

March 23: Zoom

May 14: In-person (Detroit)

August 25: Zoom

October 19: In-person (Oakland County)

November 20: All Day, In-person (Hastings)



Directors

Joe Cialdella

Assistant Director, Experiential Learning

University of Michigan, Rackham Graduate School

Ann Arbor

Joescia at umich dot edu

Malcolm Cottle

Curator of Collections

Sloan Museum of Discovery

Flint

MCottle at SloanLongway dot org

Rachel Crouch 

Processing Archivist

Motown Museum

Detroit

rcrouch at motownmuseum dot org

Chelsea Denault

MDPN Coordinator

Michigan Digital Preservation Network

Lansing 

denaultc at mcls dot org

Caitlyn Perry Dial

Senior Director of Development
MSU Libraries & Graduate School
East Lansing
dialcait at msu dot edu

Megan Geiken

Director of Marketing

Grand Rapids Children's Museum

Grand Rapids

mgeiken at grcm dot org

Shannon Pinkster

Curator

Historic Charlton Park

Hastings

SPinkster at barrycounty dot org


Ashley Ross

Mission Advancement Director

Guest House, Inc.

Lake Orion

rossashleymi at gmail dot com


Kailey Wracan

Manager of Development & Membership

Impression 5 Science Center

Lansing

wracan at impression5 dot org

Ken Yarsevich

Retired
Lansing
Y3OKK at comcast dot net

Joel Zwart

Curator of Collections & Exhibitions 
Muskegon Museum of Art
Muskegon
jzwart at muskegonartmuseum dot org

Staff

Lisa Craig Brisson

Executive Director
director at michiganmuseums dot org

Melissa Ford

Assistant Director
comms at michiganmuseums dot org


Natalie Pantelis

Programs Coordinator

programs at michiganmuseums dot org

Yitzack Balmaceda

Membership and Development Assistant
members at michiganmuseums dot org

Phone: 313-334-7643

Our office hours are 9:00 a.m.  to 3:00 p.m., 

Monday through Thursday.

(Left to Right) Yitzack Balmaceda, Lisa Craig Brisson, Natalie Pantelis, Melissa Ford


The Michigan Museums Association is supported in part by an award from the Michigan Arts and Culture Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Thank you to our Partners!


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