OMA Board of Directors

Sarah Baylinson, Board Vice President

Central Oregon

Sarah Baylinson is the Collections Manager at the High Desert Museum in Bend, OR. Previously, she was the Collections Manager at the Bowman Museum in Prineville, OR and the Museum Manager at the Log House Museum in Seattle, WA. Sarah has worked in a variety of museum related fields including exhibit preparation for King Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs and fine art handling for Artech Fine Art Services. She has had the opportunity to work and volunteer with many Puget Sound museums including Hibulb Cultural Center, The Nordic Heritage Museum, and The Island County Historical Society. Sarah has a Certificate of Museum Studies from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Randall Melton, Board Treasurer

Eastern Oregon

Randall Melton is the collection Curator for Tamastslikt Cultural Institute located on the Umatilla Indian Reservation.  He is an enrolled member of the Seminole nation of Oklahoma and a graduate of Eastern Oregon University with a B.S. in anthropology/sociology.  Randall has worked for Tamastslikt since 1996 and as the Collection Curator since 2004. Randall is also one of the mentors for Oregon  Heritage Commission's MentorCorps. He's excited for the opportunity to work with other museum professions from across the state and provide a tribal and eastern Oregon voice to the conversation. Randall was elected to the OMA Board in 2014.

Nicole Yasuhara, Board Member, Membership Committee Chair

Portland Metro

Nicole Yasuhara is the Deputy Museum Director at the Oregon Historical Society in Portland. Nicole graduated from University of Hawaii with a BA in Anthropology and then received her MA from George Washington University in Museum Studies with a focus on Collections Management. She has served at the Oregon Historical Society in many functions since 2008. Nicole was elected to the OMA Board in 2015.

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Lynn Federle-Orr, PhD, Board Member

Mt Hood/The Gorge

Dr. Lynn Federle-Orr is currently Executive Director of The History Museum of Hood River County. Previously Curator-in-Charge of European Art for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, she oversaw the permanent collection and galleries of San Francisco’s Legion of Honor. Lynn also served on the NEA’s Domestic Indemnification Program advisory panel. With a University of California Ph.D., she has lectured and published widely on the 17th and 19th centuries. While in the Bay Area, she was invited to teach at Stanford University (Art and Art History Department and Continuing Studies Program), the University of California, Santa Cruz (Department of History of Art and Visual Culture), and the University of San Francisco (Department of Art and Architecture). Lynn was elected to the OMA Board in 2017.

Dan Ruby, Board Member

Southern Oregon

Dan Ruby is Executive Director of ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum in Ashland. He was with the Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada, Reno, for more than 12 years, serving as Director in 2014. He has been an active participant and leader of state and national museum associations. Most recently he served as the Chair of the Coalition of State Museum Associations Foundation (COSMA) and the President of the Nevada Museums Association. He is passionate about working with youth and inspiring their love for STEM. Dan joined the OMA board in 2019.

Deana Dartt, PhD, Board Member

Willamette Valley

Deana Dartt, PhD is the owner of Live Oak Museum Consulting, a business committed to bridging the divide between Native people and the arts institutions that represent them. She is Coastal Chumash and Mestiza, descending from the indigenous people of the Californias. Her scholarly and professional work strives to address the incongruities between public understanding, representation and true acknowledgement of Native peoples, their cultures, histories and contemporary lives. She earned her MA and PhD from the University of Oregon (go Ducks) and has held curatorial positions at the Burke Museum of Natural and Cultural History and the Portland Art Museum as well as teaching appointments at the University of Oregon, University of Washington, and Northwest Indian College. She recently completed a writing fellowship at the School for Advanced Research where she revised her book manuscript for publication titled: Subverting the Master Narrative: Museums, Power and Native Life in California.