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The line-up of exciting speakers at the Historic New England Summit continues to grow. Don’t miss the discussions on climate change, cultural heritage, agricultural preservation, and transformations in teaching with these leading voices.
Ed Carr, Ph.D., Director of International Development, Community, Environment (IDCE) and Professor at Clark University, and Panel Member for Climate Change Adaptation Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility
Topic: Intersectional Emergency: Climate Change Impacts to New England
Samantha Koslow, Christie’s Director, Business Development and Head of Museum and Corporate Collection Services
Topic: Technology and Globalizing Cultural Heritage
Kathy Kottaridis, Executive Director, Historic Boston Incorporated
Topic: Growing Community through Agricultural Preservation
Kennan F. McKenzie, Ph.D., Director, Generous Listening and Dialogue Center (GLADC) at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life
Topic: History Lessons: Transformations in Teaching…Good and Bad
Our newest leading voices join these Summit speakers
on timely topics including social history, institutional renewal, inclusive collecting, anchoring community through culture, living archives, preservation and urban growth, inherited bias, decarbonization and old buildings, traditional trades, and more.
- Dr. Luis Aguirre-Torres, Director of Sustainability, City of Ithaca, NY
- Catherine Allgor, President, Massachusetts Historical Society
- Mary Margaret Earl, Executive Director and Senior Minister of the UU Urban Ministry
- Michelle Finamore Ph.D., Fashion and Design Curator
- Kathleen Gagne, Executive Director, Mechanics Hall
- Dr. Françoise N. Hamlin, Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies, Brown University
- Kate Lear, Board Chair, Ballet Hispánico
- Leo Lovemore Ph.D, Research Scholar, Recovering New England’s Voices, Historic New England, and Adjunct Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
- Byron Rushing, President, Roxbury Historical Society
- Candelaria Silva-Collins, Chair, Designators, George B. Henderson Foundation
- Dr. Carl Skelton, President, Gotham Innovation Greenhouse
- Anne-Marie Soulliere, Retired President, Fidelity Foundations, and Trustee, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk, CT, home of Yale Chamber Music Festival
- Nader Tehrani, Founding Principal of NADAAA, and former Dean of The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union
- Sarah Turner, President, North Bennet Street School
