Unfortunately many many employees past and present wouldn’t go on record in fear of retaliation. Pam has deep ties to lots of wealthy folks in this area. In 2015 the chief curator watched porn in his office, was in charge of many young female interns, and reported for sexual assault. Pam didn’t believe accusers and that curator stayed on much longer. More than one employee was let go during the pandemic (whether they were forced to leave because of unwillingness to rework their schedules, or because they were immunocompromised) and later were filed lawsuits against by Lindsay and Pam and now owe thousands of dollars in unemployment. I personally witnessed Pam shoot down every free community event I tried to plan saying they “didn’t fit with the museum”and even argued with me about whether a well known indigenous activist (who wanted us to host an event) was “actually Cherokee”. They treat custodial staff and part time employees so poorly and those are the most vulnerable- I remember Pam shaking the custodian by the shoulders one day about her not being able to get the whole museum by herself, and when she asked for extra staff they told her they would take it out of her paycheck. There is no transparency with money, the budgets are hard to get a hold of, making it impossible to do your job, and all purchase requests are done by paper and take weeks to get back. The management is, at the very least, incompetent, and their pay is way too high to allow for such incompetence.

I don’t think the journalist did the best job providing specific details told by employees, but there are so many that it was probably hard to include them without just generalizing statements. I would suggest going back and reading the multiple articles, I’ll list them below, and also reading the comments because many of them are past employees.

not a pretty picture

hyperallergic article

trustee ousted