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About the SEMC

The Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC), nonprofit membership organization, is an association of museums, museum staff, independent professionals and corporate partners. We focus on the Southeastern United State including: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, and US Virgin Islands.

We work to:

  • Provide educational and professional development opportunities
  • Improve the interchange of ideas and information
  • Encourage respect and collegiality

The Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) is dedicated to providing a safe, inclusive, and welcoming conference experience for everyone. We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment in any form.

Biographies of newly nominated candidates for SEMC's governing board can be read here.

SEMC By-Law revisions (2019)


Contact Us: 
SEMC
 PO Box 550746 
Atlanta, GA 30355-3246
[404] 378-3153 Office 
[404] 814-2031 fax
EMAIL


OFFICERS

President



Heather Marie Wells
Digital Media Specialist
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
Bentonville, AR
[479] 418-5755
Vice President

Matthew Davis
Director of Historic Museums
Georgia College 
Milledgeville, GA
[478] 445-4545
Secretary

Deitrah J. Taylor
Public Historian
Milledgeville, GA
 [478] 320-4010
Treasurer: 




ROBIN REED 
RETIRED MUSEUM DIRECTOR
Virginia
[757] 690-8062
Past President:


Darcie MacMahon
Director of Exhibits and Public Programs Florida Museum of Natural History
Gainesville, FL
 [352] 273-2053


  

COUNCIL



Nancy Strickland Fields
Director and Curator 
Pembroke, NC
Museum of the Southeast american indian
[910] 521-6282


Michael Scott                         Director of Historic Resources Jekyll Island Authority, Mosaic/Jekyll Island Museum 
Jekyll Island, GA
[912] 217-4511


Elise LeCompte
Registrar and Asst. Dept. Chair
 Florida Museum of Natural History
 Gainesville, FL
 [352] 273-1925


Rosalind Martin
Director of Education
 Knoxville Museum of Art
 Knoxville, TN 
 [865] 524-1200



Pody Gay
Director
 Discovery Network/Museum of Discovery
 Little Rock, AR 
 [501] 537-3081



Deborah Mack
Associate Director, Office of Strategic Partnerships
 Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture
 Washington, D.C.
 [202] 633-4513




Alexander V. Benitez
Director
 Moundville Archaeological Park
 The University of Alabama
 Moundville, AL
 [205] 371-8731

Lance Wheeler
Curator of Interpretation
Two Mississippi Museums
Mississippi Department of
Archives & History
Jackson, MS 
[704] 773-9967



Calinda Lee 
Vice President of Historical Interpretation and Community Engagement
Atlanta Historical Society
Atlanta, GA
[404] 814-2000


Scott Alvey
Director
Kentucky Historical Society
Frankfurt, KY 
[502] 564-1792


Glenna Barlow
Curator of Education 
 Columbia Museum of Art
 Columbia, SC
 [803] 343-2187

Brenda Tindal                             
Director of Education and  engagement 
international African American museum               
Charleston, SC
[843] 872-5352