Hayward Area Historical Society

AT Stephens is the executive director of the Hayward Area Historical Society. Mr. Stephens, a Hayward Rotary Club member since 2014, will be reviewing the recent history and forecasting this next decade of engagement as HAHS approaches its official 60th Anniversary on December 6, 2016. celebrates its 60th Anniversary.  What has been the role of the historical society to its members and friends and what more will everyone's favorite local Museum of History and Culture be in the near future? Join us on September 12 for an interesting and informative discussion of these questions and more.

BIOGRAPHY

AT Stephens is the Executive Director of the Hayward Area Historical Society.  He joined HAHS as interim director in April 2013 and has been its fulltime administrator since 2014.
 
Over decades as a museum professional, Mr. Stephens has worked at historic sites in Northern Virginia and African American-themed museums in Philadelphia and Baltimore.  He was a Vice President during the expansion of the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis and directed planning for a contemporary art museum in Raleigh, NC, where he was also a Teaching Assistant Professor of Design Studies in the College of Design, North Carolina State University. 
 
Mr. Stephens has collaborated with organizations as varied as the multiple sites of the Smithsonian Institution; Colonial Williamsburg; Thomas Jefferson's Monticello; the Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC; and Laurel Grove, a one-room Colored School in Franconia, Virginia.  His projects as a consultant in “museum practis | publik histry | artn design” have included work for E. Verner Johnson Associates and the Founding Council of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture; the Underground Railroad Initiative, National Capitol Region of National Park Service in Washington, DC; and Separate Cinema, the African American Film Archive in Hyde Park, NY.
 
An occasional lecturer on museum practice and American history, Mr. Stephens has enjoyed adjunct faculty positions in the Graduate Program in Art Education at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, DC; Graduate Program in Museum Studies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis; and Northern Virginia Community College, Loudoun, where he advised on requirements for the Humanities’ Career Certificate in Historic Preservation.
 
Locally, Mr. Stephens is a Board member of the Hayward Chamber of Commerce, a co-director of the Chamber’s Nonprofit Alliance, and a member of the Hayward Rotary Club.
 

Presiding on 9/12: President Sean Reinhart
Also on 9/12: Dan Goldstein Vocational Talk