KMA Conference Policies
Waiver and Photo Release
By submitting a registration for the Kansas Museums Association (KMA) Virtual Conference, you agree to the following:
- KMA is committed to provide a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all meeting participants and KMA staff. All participants, including, but not limited to, attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, KMA staff, board members, and others are expected to abide by the Meeting Safety & Responsibility Policy. You can read the full policy below.
- You authorize KMA to use, reproduce, and/or publish photographs and/or video that may pertain to you — including your image, likeness, and/or voice without compensation. KMA may use this material in various publications, recruitment materials, or for other related endeavors in print and online, including the KMA website and email correspondence.
Meeting Safety & Responsibility Policy
KMA is committed to providing a safe, productive, and welcoming environment for all meeting participants and KMA staff. All participants, including, but not limited to, attendees, speakers, volunteers, exhibitors, KMA staff, board members, and others are expected to abide by this Meeting Safety & Responsibility Policy. This Policy applies to all KMA meeting-related events, including those held in conjunction with KMA events, in public or private facilities.
Unacceptable Behavior
KMA has zero-tolerance for any form of discrimination or harassment in any form, including but not limited to sexual harassment by participants or our staff at our meetings. This policy also covers any virtual meetings hosted by the association.
Examples of unacceptable behavior include, but are not limited to, verbal comments related to gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, religion, national origin, inappropriate use of nudity and/or sexual images in public spaces or in presentations, or threatening, cyber-bullying, or stalking any attendee, speaker, volunteer, exhibitor, KMA staff or board member, or other meeting guests.
Physical or verbal abuse of any attendee, speaker, volunteer, exhibitor, KMA staff or board member, or other meeting guest or disruption of presentations at sessions, during speakers, or at other events organized by KMA will not be tolerated.
If you experience harassment or hear of any incidents of unacceptable behavior, KMA asks that you inform either Lisa Dodson, Executive Director, lisa.dodson@wichita.edu or 316.978.6535, or Jamin Landavazo, Assistant Director, asstdirector@ksmuseums.org so that we can take the appropriate action.
KMA reserves the right to take any action deemed necessary and appropriate, including immediate removal from the meeting without warning or refund, in response to any incident of unacceptable behavior, and KMA reserves the right to prohibit attendance at any future meeting.
Adapted from American Association for State and Local History Annual Meeting Policies, https://aaslh.org/2020annualmeeting/. Based on guidelines from the American Society of Association Executives, https://annual.asaecenter.org/meetingsafety.cfm.
Adopted by the KMA Board of Directors 10.22.20
For a printable version of these policies, click here.
