Samuel Casey Carter
Samuel Casey Carter is President and CEO of the Elling Eide Center. Across his career, Casey has co-founded and exited from an ed-tech start-up, led the senior management teams of both for-profit and non-profit companies, and helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars in public and private funding for organizations committed to the life of the mind and the advancement of human flourishing. Casey is also the owner of Carter Research, a professional services company that provides strategy, new business development, and operations consulting to K-12 education companies in the U.S. and abroad.
Prior to coming to the Eide Center, Casey has been CEO of Faith in the Future, a Catholic school management organization that oversees 17 high schools and four schools of special education in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia; president of National Heritage Academies, a charter school management company that operates over 100 schools in nine states; president of CfBT USA—the U.S. affiliate of CfBT Education Trust headquartered in the U.K.—the head of global corporate social responsibility for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and the executive director of the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Foundation.
Casey is also the author of two best-selling books — On Purpose: How Great School Cultures Form Strong Character published by Corwin Press/SAGE International (also translated into Italian and published by Città Nuova as Quando la scuola educa) and No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools, which he wrote as a Bradley Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. His articles, essays, and columns have appeared in more than 180 newspapers and magazines, including, The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, New York Post, Washington Times, Los Angeles Times, Investor’s Business Daily, and Detroit News.
After receiving a bachelor degree from St. John’s College in Annapolis in philosophy and mathematics, Casey studied for a licentiate in sacred theology at The University of Oxford and for a doctorate in philosophy at The Catholic University of America. The greatest joy in his life are his three adult girls — Kirby, Casey, and Lucy — and his wife, Nancy Dubé.
Georgia Hudson
Georgia Hudson is the Director of Operations. Georgia has been with the Elling O. Eide Foundation since 2013.
Georgia is responsible for leading the operating plans for the land and structures on the property. Over the past 11 years, Georgia has held various roles at the Center: Administration, Event Planning, and Operations.
Georgia has over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry, specifically, in credit card partnership marketing. Georgia has worked for MBNA, Bank One, and JP Morgan Chase, the three largest credit card issuers in the United States. Over the years she managed the marketing for various CoBrand affinity card programs, in her last position at JP Morgan Chase, she managed the company’s largest rebrand of credit card plastics reissue conversion from Bank One to JP Morgan.
Georgia grew up in Ocean City, Maryland. She graduated from Towson University with a BA in Communications. She moved to Sarasota from Wilmington, Delaware 20 years ago with her husband Howdy, and two children Miles and Olivia.
Yulia Mylnikova
Yulia Mylnikova is a historian of medieval China and Inner Asia. She joined the Elling Eide Center in 2024 after a two-year fellowship as a Residential Scholar at the Getty Research Institute. Dr. Mylnikova holds a PhD in Chinese History from St. Petersburg University, Russia, and has lived, worked, and traveled extensively in China. With over ten years of university teaching experience and a strong background in developing and managing programs, she brings a deep commitment to working with and protecting original archival sources. She maintains an active research interest in the literary and material culture of the Tangut empire, which flourished in the northwestern borderlands of China between AD 982 and 1227. Beyond her library work and research, she is passionate about contemporary theater.
Brittany Braasch
Brittany Braasch is an Assistant Librarian at the Elling Eide Center. Before coming to the Eide Center, Brittany worked as a contracted archivist for the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. She is the recipient of a bachelor’s degree in Art History with a joint concentration in Ancient Greek from New College of Florida and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida.
Heidi Connor
Heidi Connor serves as the archivist for the Elling Eide Center. Heidi is the Chief Archivist at The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, the State Art Museum of Florida. She is a certified archivist, who has worked with museum, government, academic, religious, commercial, and private collections. She also has expertise in legacy planning, digital asset management, grant writing, registration methods, exhibition design, and curation.
Heidi’s interest in collection work began after she left Ringling College of Art and Design and became the director of the studio of American sculptor, John Chamberlain. At Ten Coconut, Inc. she worked with museums and galleries across the globe. This introduction to blue chip fine art led her to the professional care and management of fine art and historical materials.
After Ten Coconut, Inc. Heidi was collections manager for the Edward Lowe Foundation where she oversaw the processing of the business records of entrepreneur Edward Lowe, inventor of the cat box filler industry with Tidy Cat and Kitty Litter. She completed the donation of this collection to the Hagley Museum and Library. Heidi designed exhibitions in the foundation’s mini museum at their headquarters in Cassopolis Michigan where visitors get a quick look at Ed’s entrepreneurial journey. Having entered the profession of archives through the back door, taking courses through the Society of American Archivists, Heidi went on to finish her MLIS at the University of South Florida and became a certified archivist. Simultaneously she was archiving the business records of Leonard H. Goldenson, founder of American Broadcast Corporation. She supervised the appraisal and donation of this collection to the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts Library along with his personal papers and those of his wife, Isabelle Weinstein Goldenson. Heidi continues to consult on the Goldensons through the Loreen Arbus Foundation. As a consulting archivist, Heidi worked with the papers of Lera Auerbach, a world- renowned conductor, pianist, and composer who is also an award-winning poet and visual artist. She archived the papers of Allen Hughes, dance and music critique for the New York Times and organized the appraisal and donation of this collection to Indiana University. Recently she completed the archival work on the personal papers and business records of Ann Solomon and artist Syd Solomon.
Heidi received her Master of Library and Information Science from the University of South Florida.
Heidi has two adult children, Mrs. Corina Duffy Kowalski, the mother of Gavin and Liam and a son, Christopher Matthew Duffy recently married to Amanda Hubbard Duffy. When not with her family she spends her personal time swimming laps, playing with her three dogs, gardening, and enjoying fiber arts.
David Moulton
David Moulton has been working at the property now known as the Elling Eide Center for more than 40 years. He was named the official caretaker in 1991. As long as David can remember, his family had ties with the Eide family. Dating back to 1940’s David’s grandparents, highly sought after landscapers in the area, had a rich history with Elling’s parents, Iver and Grace. Dave was initially introduced to Elling in the early 1980’s and has been working at the property ever since.
Shawn Moulton
Shawn Moulton joined his father as a full-time member of the property management crew in
2014. Shawn is married and has two daughters and resides in North Port.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Dr. Cynthia Chennault
Dr. Michael Drompp
Harold G. Mitchell
Lee Eide Elliott
Board Member
Dr. Keith Knapp
Dr. Joy Lidu Yi
