STAFF DIRECTORY
Christy Shira
Finance Director
Fun Fact: "The latin name for ferret, Mustela putorius furo means "smelly little thief""
Eric Miller
Executive Director
Fun Fact: "The Hubble telescope can be used to see more than 13 billion years into the past!"
Ashten Goodenough
Chief Operating Officer
Fun Fact: "It is impossible to eat 6 saltine crackers in 60 seconds without drinking anything."
Development Director
Emily Mahon
Education Director
Fun Fact: "Eating cheese at the end of a meal can help neutralize the acids in your mouth and reduce the chance of tooth decay."
Daniel Coombs
Visitor Services Manager
Fun Fact: "Muscles cannot push, they can only pull."
Cynthia Mouzis
Events & Donations Coordinator
Fun Fact: "If you force a smile for 30 seconds, you will feel happy."
Caty Tidwell
Social Media & Communications Coordinator
Fun Fact: "The sunset on the red planet (Mars) appears blue, but the sunset on the blue planet (Earth) appears red."
Pam Smart
Membership Program Coordinator
Fun Fact: "It's OK to be called a bird-brain: a Crow's brain (relative to body size) is larger than a human's!"
Haley Hill
Education Manager
Fun Fact: "No word in the English Language rhymes with month, orange, silver or purple."
Olivia Schmitz
Reservations Specialist
Fun Fact: "It officially takes 364 licks to get to the center of a tootsie pop!"
Cortney Olson
Volunteer Coordinator
Fun Fact: "Your liver can regrow itself in three weeks."
Robert Klusaw
Exhibits Fabricator
Fun Fact: "Pluto, which is half the width of the United States, has a heart-shaped glacier that’s the size of Texas and Oklahoma. This fascinating world also has blue skies, spinning moons, mountains as high as the Rockies, and it even snows—but the snow is red." Source: NASA
Travis Roland
Exhibits & Facility Manager
Fun Fact: "We have only explored about 5% of the world's oceans. There's a lot more to be discovered"
Kathleen Karpal
Grants & Development Coordinator
Fun Fact: "Memories get distorted over time. The average human has at least one false piece of memory."
