BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Anne Delano Steinert, Board Chair
Anne Delano Steinert, PhD is a historian, preservationist, and educator with twenty-five years’ experience using the built world as a tool for historical understanding. She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. Anne is the founding Board Chair of the Over-the-Rhine Museum. She has curated local exhibits including Look Here! (2015) which mounted fifty historic images on telephone poles throughout Over-the-Rhine, Schools for the City: Cincinnati’s Public School Architecture from 1832 to World War II (2016), and the award-winning Finding Kenyon-Barr: Exploring Photographs of Cincinnati’s Lost Lower West End (2017-2018). Anne holds a BA in historic preservation from Goucher College, an MS in historic preservation from Columbia University, and an MA and PhD in urban American history from the University of Cincinnati.
Teresa O'Farrell, Vice-Chair
Teresa is a native of Cincinnati and a resident of Over-the-Rhine. She also works in the neighborhood with real estate developer, The Model Group as Director of Development Accounting. In her role at Model, Teresa manages the accounting for projects in predevelopment and through construction. Her expertise includes financing structures which include LIHTC, NMTC & Historic tax credits. Teresa holds a bachelor’s degree in Finance from Xavier University and a master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Cincinnati. Her interests include outdoor adventures, running & enjoying the rich fine arts, & entertainment in Cincinnati.
Joe Vallo, Treasurer
Joe and his wife renovated and live in an 1865 mixed-use building near Findlay Market. They love the people, architecture, history, and heritage of the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. Joe feels a close connection here as his ancestors were part of the early German immigration. Joe also works in Over-the-Rhine with Flywheel Social Enterprise Hub. He is a business consultant with many years of senior management experience. He focuses on assisting entrepreneurial ventures to clarify their strategic vision, increase their social impact, and improve their financial sustainability.
Destiny Moore, Secretary
Destiny Moore is the Human Resources Manager for Zillow’s customer fulfillment engineering organization. She has more than twenty years of experience as a trusted advisor to executive leaders of both private and public organizations. She grew up in Cincinnati’s West End and is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Law. She wants to help preserve and publicize the history of Cincinnati's urban neighborhoods. Destiny facilitated the Museum’s Community Engagement Committee to connect long-term Over-the-Rhine residents with our interpretive planning project.
Blaire Bartish
Blaire Bartish has only lived in major metropolitan areas that begin with “C:” Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, back to Chicago, and now Cincinnati. She works as an outreach manager for University of Cincinnati’s College of Engineering and Applied Science. A current graduate student in Museum Studies at UC, she also holds a Bachelor’s in Education from Ohio Wesleyan University and a Master’s from DePaul University in Educational Policy & Research. Blaire has years of experience creating educational programming in museums across the Midwest. She currently resides in Green Township with her husband, two children, and two pets. She has a soft spot for thrifting, punk music, and cats.
Roseann Culley Hayes
Roseann currently serves as Chief Development Officer of Learning Grove, a cradle-to-career educational services agency with a focus on low-income and underserved communities. Over the course of her career, she has held fundraising and/or event planning positions at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, The Christ Hospital Foundation, 55 North, Tall Stacks and WCET.
Jarrod M. Mohler, Esq.
Board member Jarrod Mohler is an attorney and a resident of Cincinnati’s Clifton neighborhood, where he and his wife are stewards to a 125 year-old Victorian. Jarrod came to Cincinnati for law school, fell in love with the abundance of historic architecture and fantastic people, and now thinks of it as home.
Robert (Bob) Selhorst
Bob is a life-long Cincinnatian. As a professional educator he has served as history teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent in the Oak Hills Local School District. After retiring from Oak Hills, he started a small development company called OTR Metropolis, specializing in restoring historic buildings in OTR. This company has restored six historic single family homes and three condominiums, including the J.C. Baum House on Dunlap Street, the Jacob Moerlein House and the Moerlein Brewery Office, where he and his wife reside. He moved to Over-the-Rhine in 2013 and has volunteered in the past with The Brewery District, St. Mary’s Church, the Over-the-Rhine Community Council, and Rothenberg School, and the Mohawk Neighborhood CDC.
Randy Smith
Randy recently retired from a 35 year career as Creative Director for Jack Rouse Associates (JRA), Randy provided design leadership for a variety of JRA’s museum and entertainment projects. His close relationship with clients sent him around the world working for LEGO, Ferrari, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Kodak, Cincinnati History Museum and Ohio Village to name a few. He has served on numerous Boards in Cincinnati; ArtWorks, Historic Southwest Ohio, The American Sign Museum, and now the Over-the-Rhine Museum. In 1981, he graduated from the University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, focusing on Interior Design, Architecture, and Planning. Randy, and his wife Carla, live in an 1870 micro-Italianate home in Over-the-Rhine, where you will find them riding bikes, snapping photos and enjoying the pleasures of city life.
Michael Stehlin
Michael is an architect specializing in historic restoration and is also the Chief Building Official of Hamilton County. A resident of Over-the-Rhine since 1989, he raised his family here and also helped save many historic buildings. Michael serves the board as Building Committee Chair.
Zach Woolard
Mr. Woolard has over 12 years of experience in real estate and community development. He has been the project manager on over $180 million worth of complex real estate development projects. His work experience includes collaborating with non-profit and for-profit partners on multifaceted new construction, rehabilitation, and historic renovation projects with complicated financing structures. Mr. Woolard is well versed in the utilization of federal and state subsidies including low-income housing tax credits, historic tax credits, and new market tax credits towards developing high impact community-oriented projects.
Mr. Woolard is deeply committed to ensuring equity and accountability in all aspects of his work. He believes that successful community projects must be heroic in vision yet must set credible goals to ensure a successful outcome for everyone. Additionally, he profoundly understands the importance of honoring a community’s history and the socio-economic impacts that preserving that history.
Mr. Woolard is excited to bring his expertise and leadership to the OTR Museum board. He looks forward to utilizing his connections and uniquely aligned skillset to help drive and effectuate the organization’s goal of making the brick-and-mortar museum a reality. Mr. Woolard holds a bachelor’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Illinois and a master’s degree in community planning from the University of Cincinnati. He currently lives in Bellevue Kentucky with his wife and two cats.
STAFF
Donna M. Harris, Director of Museum Administration
Donna began in this role in May 2020 and is the museum’s first paid full-time staff person. Donna has expertise in evaluation, program development, and grant writing from her twenty plus years working in nonprofit organizations. She holds a BA in Psychology, an MS in Health Promotion, and graduate certificates in Museum Studies, Nonprofit Leadership, and Fundraising. In her role at the Over-the-Rhine Museum, she manages museum operations, supervises the walking tour program, and facilitates grant submission, fundraising, and evaluation.