MEET the Tomaquag team!
Special thanks to Josiah Gill for photography.
Administration Team
Financial Team
Beth Logue (she/her/hers); Finance Business Manager
Beth Logue is Tomaquag Museum’s Business Finance Manager. She brings 21 years financial experience managing retail bank operation call center teams, client support teams and recently managed a remote office in R.I. for a large third party COBRA administrator out of the Mid-West. Beth enjoys domestic and international travel, can be found on the shores of southern Rhode Island on her boat and most of all time spent with her kids that she is most proud of. She has a Batchelor of Science in Sociology from Frostburg State University (1999), Frostburg Maryland.
Communications Team
IEC Team
Education Team
Chrystal Mars Baker; Education Manager; Narragansett/Niantic
Chrystal Mars Baker, is a Narragansett Tribal citizen whose love and service to family is her primary motivation for all she does. She feels blessed to descend from paternal and maternal lineages of her Tribe whose examples of integrity, hard work and spirituality are core values upon which she conducts her daily life. Chrystal is an educator who enjoys reading, researching, sharing history, and having thought provoking dialogue. As the first postsecondary graduate of her family, she proudly holds a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education/Social Studies from the University of Rhode Island. In her professional capacity, Chrystal is the Education Manager at the Tomaquag Museum, serves on the Board of Directors for the Rhode Island Humanities and The JonnyCake Center of Wakefield. As a member of the Charlestown Historical Society, she carries on the legacy of her grandparents who were among its founders. Her role in these organizations enable her to share cultural knowledge while working to uplift the Native voice.
Archivist & Collections
Anthony Belz (he/ him/ his);
Collections & Archive Manager
Anthony Belz is the Archivist and Collections Manager at Tomaquag Museum. Before becoming an archivist, Anthony spent nearly five years working as an archaeologist. He has a total of over 13 years of experience in the museum field, including 8 ½ years at the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. His research interests include archaeology and history, folklore, oral history, ethnomusicology, exhibit curation, and design, writing, and preservation science. Anthony is an avid gardner and also enjoys record collection and astronomy. He has an Associate in Arts from Heartland Community College (2002); Bachelor of Science degree in Anthropology from Illinois State University (2004)-both in Normal, Illinois, and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of Rhode Island (2012).