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Data, What Is It Good For? Absolutely Everything! Wednesday, August 6, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 PM EST How can data results help to inform decision making in your museum? Data collection is essential for grant funding, successful advocacy, community development, and more! Join us with Susie Wilkening from Wilkening Consulting, Kristin Herron from the New York State Council on the Arts to learn about the power of data.
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Susie Wilkening Susie Wilkening (she/her) has over 25 years of experience in museums, including nearly 20 years leading custom projects for museums as well as fielding groundbreaking national research on the role of museums in American society. As principal of Wilkening Consulting, she provides research leadership for the Annual Survey of Museum-Goers, She is the primary author of most of the infographics Data Stories, which share research findings with the museum field. Additionally, she is the author of Audiences and Inclusion: A Primer for Cultivating More Inclusive Attitudes Among the Public and is the primary author of Life Stages of the Museum Visitor. Susie is a go-to expert on museums for the media, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, NPR, and others. Susie earned a BS in History, Technology, and Society from Georgia Tech and an MA from the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture at the University of Delaware. She resides in Seattle, and her husband and curious children often accompany her as she travels to various museums and historic sites. | Kristin Herron
Kristin Herron is Program Director for Architecture + Design and Museums at the New York State Council on the Arts where she has worked for over 20 years. Before joining NYSCA Kristin was a curator with the National Park Service and worked in interpretation at the Old York Historical Society (ME), the Historic Houses of Odessa (DE), Winterthur Museum and for the Michigan Artrain. She has served as adjunct faculty in the Parsons The New School of Design/Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum’s M.A. Program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies. Kristin holds an M.A. from the Winterthur Program/University of Delaware, an MFA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a B.A. in American Culture and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan. She is an alumna of the Seminar for Historical Administration at Colonial Williamsburg, the Attingham Summer School, and the British Council’s Museum Professionals Study Tour to Northern Ireland.
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