About Startling Admissions
Startling Admissions is a blog by Kit Matthew covering ideas and concepts for Arts and Cultural nonprofits such as museums, zoos, aquaria, gardens, historic sites, and theaters.
Kit has 20 years nonprofit experience spanning fundraising, marketing, executive leadership, facility planning, and exhibit and program development in museums, conservation groups, cultural organizations and science education and research. She has worked with a variety of nonprofit organizations including The Nature Conservancy, New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Historic Charleston Foundation, Plimoth Plantation, Please Touch Museum, and the Wildlife Conservation Society. In addition, Kit served in product development roles at Unilever and Reebok, working with international product teams. She brings a range of experiences from the academic, corporate, and nonprofit worlds to her various assignments and volunteer work.
Her educational background includes a PhD in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Minnesota.
She is active as an accreditation reviewer for the American Association of Museums, as a peer reviewer for federal educational agencies, and has served on boards for a children's museum, a wildlife rehabilitation center, and a ballet company. She serves as a lecturer and graduate student advisor at the University of the Arts MA Program in Museum Studies. She currently works in the Arts and Cultural Division at Blackbaud.
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