About me
Jo Haas has extensive experience leading non-profit organizations and is currently an executive with the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville, Kentucky leading an effort to design and open the world’s most accessible museum, The Dot Experience, which will focus on blindness and the human experience. She moved to Kentucky to join Kentucky Science Center as CEO in 2008 and served in that capacity for 14 years, leading development of a vibrant “Do Science” brand. Jo has held executive positions with Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, Ford Motor Company’s Spirit of Ford, and The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and began her career with COSI where she served for nearly a decade. She has been a member of many boards, including the global Association of Science-Technology Centers, the Association of Children’s Museums, and numerous Girl Scout boards in the communities where she has lived. She presently serves as the Chair of the Board at the John C Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. Jo is mother to Winston P. Haas, a college student studying Mechanical Engineering.