PAWTUCKET – Slater Mill today announced the hiring of Janice Kissinger, a resident of Lincoln’s Great Road Historic District, as its new executive director.
“We conducted a national search … and it was a very pleasant surprise to find someone with all the qualifications we were seeking virtually on our doorstep,” said John A. Siddall, president of the board of trustees.
Kissinger, most recently a management consultant specializing in nonprofits, has also served as director of institutional advancement at School One in Providence; president and CEO of Leadership Rhode Island; and executive director of both Business Volunteers for the Arts and the Pawtucket Arts Council. Active as a volunteer, she is the treasurer and a member of the executive committee of Rhode Island Citizens for the Arts.
“Slater Mill … combines my passions for nonprofit capacity building, fiber arts and New England history,” she said.
Information about the historic mill complex and museum, on the Blackstone River in Pawtucket, is available at www.SlaterMill.org or by calling 725-8638.
