DAC FY 2026 Panel 6


Webinar

10/30/2024 1:00:00 PM

DAC FY 2026 Panel 6

2026

Brown, Samuel

Teri Abstein

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Materials

Agenda Files

AgendaPanel6.pdf
ScoregridPanel6revised.pdf

Panelists (2)

Kendrick, Melissa

  • County: Monroe County

Bio:

County: Monroe

Bio

  • President/CEO of the Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society in Key West Florida, where she has been employed since 1991 and has served as special projects manager, CFO, COO, and interim director
  • Previously employed at Citibank as a bank officer in credit & finance
  • Immediate Past President of the Florida Association of Museums (FAM) and is a FAM representative to the IMLS funded Connecting to Collections Steering Committee and the IMLS funded Museums United 2 Steering Committee,  was Twice President of the KW Chamber of Commerce, 9 years on Key West Tourist Development Council (5 years as chairman), currently serves as the board chairman for Historic Florida Keys Foundation, and is a Steering Committee member for the National Association of State Museum Associations (NASMA).
  • B.S., Finance, New York University 

Fleming, Kathy Allen

  • County: St. Johns County

Bio:

County: StJohns

Bio

Kathy A. Fleming has 37 years of experience in non-profits, museums, and arts organizations, including lighthouses, arts organizations, and historic sites, and working with people with disabilities.

She retired as Executive Director of the St. Augustine Lighthouse & Museum in 2022, after 28 years of service, where she generated over $46 million in new revenues for the museum and grew the annual budget from $150,000 in gross revenues annually to $6.5 million a year. She has been a past president of the Board of Directors of the St. Johns County Visitor and Conventions Bureau and a Past President of the Florida Association of Museums, Inc.  She enjoys strategic planning and working on organizational structure and culture.

Today, Kathy owns Allen Fleming Consulting and uses her talents to help small nonprofits thrive. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Lighthouse Society where she serves as Vice President, working with the National Park Service, GSA, and USCG to develop a seminar in March 2025 centering on the 25th Anniversary of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act, a law which she helped to shepherd and for which her organization won a National Trust for Historic Preservation Award.  
Fleming is married to Andy Fleming, whom she met at Wake Forest University.  They have three grown children: a daughter, Phoebe, and the twins, Jack and Zeke. They have two dogs, Dougal MacDougal and Belle.  Andy and Kathy live in St. Augustine, FL.