Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Washington Monument, Thomas Jefferson, Ford's Theater.īloom views this position as a stepping stone that will allow her to network her way into a museum job with the NPS. The division spans across 14 National Park Service sites including the Korean War Memorial, MLK Jr. Bloom provides administrative support (payroll, liaison to other divisions, purchases, records management, assisting the supervisors in preparing hiring packets, etc.) for the 86 people in her division.
She is currently the administrative support assistant for the Division of Interpretation and Education at the National Mall and Memorial Parks in Washington D.C. and completed some limited volunteer work in the off season with assorted NPS sites. Finally, from July 2020-October 2021, Bloom worked as the assistant to the registrar for the Southeast Archeology Center in Tallahassee, F.L.
Bloom also spent six months in the Everglades working for the South Florida Collections Management Center on their inventory project in 2019 and two months at Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area in 2020 working on coordinating the move for museum collections. She spent four months at Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park as a cataloger on the largest archeological collection in the NPS in 2018. “I find myself relying on a lot of the things I learned in those classes as a foundation for my career,” said Bloom.įollowing graduation, Bloom worked for the NPS in a seasonal capacity as a museum technician from June 2018-October 2021. Kristen Baldwin-Deathridge to try to strengthen several areas that she knew the NPS handled under the umbrella of "Cultural Resources." Lucinda McCray, Cultural Resources Management with Virginia Wallace, Digital History and several Historic Preservation courses with Dr. Once at Appalachian, Bloom got the opportunity to take classes such as Oral History with Dr. Timothy Silver in the Department of History. She initially found Appalachian on a list of universities with competitive masters programs in Museum Studies and decided to apply because they listed a NPS history course in the graduate catalog, taught by Dr. From the courses she took, the topics she chose for her comprehensive exams and the internship she completed in 2017, all were chosen to make Bloom a more marketable candidate for the NPS after graduation. THENĪs a student at Appalachian State University, Kate Bloom tailored her educational experience around the goal of working for the National Park Service (NPS).
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