Executive Director
Sara Fisher sfisher@iwasm.org
Sara joined the team at IWASM in November 2020. Before coming to the museum, she ran one of only two history-focused AmeriCorps programs in the country. She has more than eight years experience in the museum, historical society, public history, and archives field. Sara previously worked as the Curator/Collections Manager at the Lakewood Historical Society, AmeriCorps member with the Quaker Heritage Center of Wilmington College and the Oberlin Heritage Center, the Ohio History Connection as AmeriCorps Manager & Local History Services Coordinator, and Community and Operations Manager at CoWork Oberlin. Since 2013, she’s worked with more than 40 local history museums in Ohio to better serve their communities, care for their historic collections, develop interactive programming, establish strategic planning, and more. Sara is actively engaged with the Ohio Local History Alliance, American Association for State & Local History (AASLH), and National Council on Public History. In 2018, she served as Impact, Relevance and Engagement Co-Team Lead for the StEPs Enhancement Project, which brought together professionals from across the country to update the StEPs (Standards of Excellence Program) workbook for small to medium size history organizations.
She earned a B.A. in History with a Women & Gender Studies Certificate from Ohio University, and a M.A. in History concentrating in Public History from Wright State University. One of her pet research interests are the “Night Witches” – the nickname given to the all-female 588th Night Bomber Regiment of the Soviet Union during WWII.
Collections Manager
Meghan Anderson manderson@iwasm.org
Meghan graduated from Boise State University with a B.A. in History. She obtained an M.A. in Museum Studies from the University of Oklahoma. Her career began more than a decade ago at the Idaho State Museum as an Intern to the Registrar and then as an Exhibit Assistant for a state-wide exhibit on the territorial sesquicentennial of Idaho. For four years, she worked as the Interpretive Specialist at the Old Idaho Penitentiary State Historic Site. Here she developed tours and programming, as well as researching and designing exhibitions. 
During the summer of 2017, at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, she served as the Curatorial Finalist for the Steele Internship Program. Meghan then became the first-ever Curator of Andalusia: the Home of Flannery O'Connor in Georgia. In her dual role as Collections Manager, she implemented museum best practices and standards for managing the previously unmanaged collection. As Curator, she developed exhibits and significantly increased the museum's social media presence by creating a blog and via Instagram.
Meghan joined the IWASM staff in August 2021 as the Collections Manager. An Idaho native, new to the Cleveland area, she is happiest at a baseball game or exploring museums and cultural sites.
