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Kathy Jones was born in Jacksonville, Florida. She currently lives in Newton, Massachusetts but will always be a Florida native.
Kathy is the Assistant Director for Information Services and Technology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University. She holds a graduate degree in Anthropology from Florida State University. She is a former President of the Board of Directors of the Museum Computer Network. Kathy the American Association of Museums representative on the NINCH Best Practices for the Digitazation of Networked Cultural Heritage working group. She is on the Board of Directors of the New England Museum Association.
As Assistant Director at the Peabody Museum, she is responsible for the development of new media applications as well as the technological infrastructure of the museum. Visit the Peabody's award winning web page at http://www.peabody.harvard.edu
She is also the Curator of the on-line exhibit entitled: "Against the Winds: Traditions of American Indian Running". (Kathy has run three marathons herself and places a lot of importance on fitness and health.)
She is the editor of THE WIRED MUSEUM: EMERGING TECHNOLOGY AND CHANGING PARADIGMS, a book available from the American Association of Museums.
She has consulted in the museum and government communities since 1985 primarily in the areas of strategic technology planning, project management and database development. Her clients include the Miami Art Museum, the Museum at FIT, Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, New England Museum Association, Newport Historical Society, New-York Historical Society, R.S. Peabody Museum - Andover, and the Five Colleges Art Museums and Historic Deerfield.
