Officials with the Museum of Danish America in Elk Horn say Kara McKeever of Kansas City, Missouri (& originally of Harlan), has been selected to begin as the Museum of Danish America’s Genealogy Center Manager after the planned retirement of Michele McNabb of Atlantic, this June. McNabb has served as the center’s manager and librarian for the past 14 years.

Kara McKeever

Following her graduation from Harlan High School, McKeever received her B.A. degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Drake University in Des Moines where she majored in Writing and International Relations. In 2013, she completed an M.F.A. in Creative Writing and Media Arts from the University of Missouri – Kansas City. During this period she held the position of Assistant to the Director of Creative Writing. Since then she has been the retail manager of Glacé Artisan Ice Cream.

McKeever’s roots are deep in Shelby County and the Danish immigrant experience. Her great-grandparents, Hermann and Inger Nielsen of rural Harlan, are on the museum’s Danish Immigrant Wall of Honor, and she has done research on Danish immigration in the late 19th Century. ”

McKeever will participate in the Museum of Danish America’s annual June Board of Director’s meeting, which is being held this year in Kansas City, Missouri from June 9-11. She will work with Michele McNabb over the summer as she assumes her new position.