Staff

Valarie founded Museum and Collector Resource in 1996 after a productive 15-year career in collections, curating, and administration at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, several house museums including a Frank Lloyd Wright house, the U.S. Coast Guard Museum, and the Massachusetts Museum of Transportation.

Leah previously worked as Collections Manager for the Peabody Museum at Harvard University and as a textile restoration specialist. Since joining MCR in 2010, Leah has managed multiple inventory and cataloging projects for clients such as the Cahoon Museum of American Art, the Libby Museum, and and acted as MCR's Temporary Registrar for the MIT Museum.

Megan  holds a M.S. in Library Science, with an emphasis on Archival Management. Megan is a Certified Archivist with a love of the old, the odd, and the story behind everything, Megan has worked on long-term projects for the Perot Collection in Texas and the Martha's Vineyard Museum in Massachusetts., as well as short term projects for the Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee Knoxville and King Ranch.

Kris has an MLIS from the University of Alabama and a Master's in Public History from Georgia Southern University. Kris spent several years working in academic archives at the University of the South, and Louisiana State University.  He also worked at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Wyoming.  Kris has focused his time with MCR on work with our family office clients.

Grant's experience includes work at the National Gallery of Art and in the private sector. Since joining MCR He has conducted a large inventory at the Somerville Museum,  collection assessments at the Worcester Historical Museum and US Sports Academy, and large digitization projects for the Cape Ann Museum, Boston Medical Library and Cyrus Dallin Art Museum. He is presently working on space assessments for university museum and the Edward Kennedy Institute for the US Senate.

Kathryn comes to MCR with a background in teaching and an MS in Library Science from Indiana University. Having worked in the University's business library and gained experience in digitization and archives processing during an internship at Conner Prairie historic village and museum, Kathryn has been involved with MCR's family office clients.