Kelly Cannon-Miller

Kelly Cannon-Miller is the Executive Director of the Deschutes County Historical Society, which operates the Deschutes Historical Museum in downtown Bend. A graduate of Portland State University with an MA in History, she is a public historian and the daughter of an archaeologist, and a land use planner. She spent parts of her adolescence in the deserts of southeastern Oregon cataloging rock art, in the back rooms of regional universities and museums, and learning what zoning setbacks are and why they matter, followed by over 25 years of experience working in museums and the field of public history.