Matthew MacArthur (Editor-in-Chief)
Title: Director of New Media
What do you do at the Museum? I oversee the development and maintenance of the NMAH Web site and other digital products.
What is your favorite exhibition? Probably America On the Move. I guess I haven’t really grown out of the little-boy obsession with cars and trucks and trains and such. That exhibition brings these dramatic objects to life in a wonderful way.
Dana Allen-Greil (Managing Editor)
Title: New Media Project Manager
What do you do at the Museum? I manage online communications (Web sites, blog, e-mail newsletter) and other digital projects for the Museum.
What is your favorite thing about working at the Museum? There is always something inspiring, provocative, challenging, or just plain weird to learn more about. I never thought I’d know so much about coins, voting machinery, segregation, polio, or salsa music. (I’ve helped create Web sites on all of these topics.) Or that I’d get to work in the same building as the first telegraph message, Kermit the Frog, the Greensboro lunch counter, Stephen Colbert’s portrait, and the flag that inspired the national anthem. It’s all in a day’s work here at the Museum and I feel very lucky to be a part of it.
Mike Johnson
Title: Manager, Development Communications & Donor Relations
What do you do at the Museum? I help raise funds from generous individuals and organizations to help the Museum create new exhibitions and programs.
What is your favorite object in the Museum? I have two favorites: Jefferson’s desk and Lincoln’s top hat. They are the most famous possessions of two of the most famous men in American history.
Megan Smith
Title: Education Specialist, Exhibition Projects and Family Programs
What do you do at the Museum? I help develop exhibitions and public programs.
What is your favorite object in the Museum? The Greensboro Lunch Counter. To me, it represents the possibility of change, and the influence that young people can have on our world.
I also really love some of the weirder things in our collection, like this framed collection of locks of hair from our first fourteen presidents. Would you want to hang this on your wall? Ew. Kind of creepy, yet very cool.
Susan Walther
Title: Senior Public Programs Coordinator
What do you do at the Museum? Maintain Museum programs calendar for the Web, print, and other media, advise on programs and publications production and produce selected programs
What is your favorite thing about working at the Museum? The “ah-ha!” experience, when someone—a visitor or even myself!—makes the connection between an object or story and its connection to his and her personal history.
Jenny Wei
Title: Education Specialist
What do you do at the Museum? I work with others in the museum to develop educational materials that get distributed on the Smithsonian’s History Explorer Web site.
What is your favorite object in the Museum? My favorite object is the Dumbo Car. I have really great memories that are connected to the Dumbo ride, and from what I’ve overheard, it sounds like a lot of other people do, too. So I think it’s a great example of how we can have really personal relationships with artifacts and history.
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