Darrell Stover is the new Program Associate and Statewide Coordinator for Museum on Main Street at the North Carolina Humanities Council. He comes to the Council from the Page-Walker Arts and History Center in Cary, NC, where he served as Cultural Arts Program Specialist. Prior to that, he was Program Director for

St. Joseph’s Historic Foundation/Hayti Heritage Center in Durham.

Stover earned a Bachelor of General Studies from the University

of Maryland-College Park and an M.A. in creative nonfiction from Johns Hopkins University. He was a Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Fellow at Virginia Tech University. Stover is a celebrated poet, blues and jazz enthusiast, and a science writer/editor. He has worked with the Council as a “We the People” participant, as a Linda Flowers Literary Award judge, and as a project director or scholar for several Council grants. You may contact Stover at dstover@nchumanities.org.

The Council’s new Administrative Assistant, Donovan McKnight, earned a B.A. in English with a concentration in the reading

and writing of poetry from the University of North Carolina

at Greensboro. After graduation in 2005, he taught high school

English and Creative Writing and also coached soccer. McKnight

has traveled to Mexico as part of a volunteer team building water cisterns for remote villages in the Yucatan Peninsula. You may

contact McKnight at dmcknight@nchumanities.org .

Originally from Savannah, GA, Jennifer Murphy McCollum joins
the Council staff as Communications and Development Officer.
A former college lecturer, freelance writer, tutor, and communications coordinator, McCollum holds a Ph.D. in English from the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she taught composition and 19th-Century American Literature. She also earned a B.S. in English Education and an M.A. in English from the University of Georgia.
You may contact McCollum at jmccollum@nchumanities.org .