Summit Speakers

More than forty leading voices will take the 2023 Summit stage, including:

Robert Adam

Special Advisor, Lecturer
NBSS

Luis Aguirre-Torres

Director of Sustainability
City of Ithaca, NY

Catherine Allgor, Ph.D.

President
Massachusetts Historical Society
Deborah Allinson

Deborah Allinson

Chair
Historic New England

Charles Baldwin

Access and Inclusion Program Officer
Mass Cultural Council

Joanne Berger-Sweeney

President
Trinity College

Dan Bergsagel

Sustainability Lead
schlaich bergermann partners
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Deborah Berke

Partner
Deborah Berke Partners

Rebecca Berry

Principal, President, Director of Sustainability
Finegold Alexander Architects

Angela D. Brooks, FAICP

Director
American Planning Association

Maria A. Burks

Consultant
Parks and Public Lands
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Dr. Alissa Butler

Study Center Manager
Historic New England

Ed Carr

Director of IDCE, Professor
Clark University

Dawn Carroll

Founder and Executive Director
Over My Shoulder Foundation

Melvin Chen

Deputy Dean
Yale School of Music

John Childs

Director of Collections
Peabody Essex Museum

David N. Cicilline

President and CEO
Rhode Island Foundation

Vin Cipolla

President and CEO
Historic New England

Vin Cipolla

President and CEO
Historic New England

Joseph Codega Jr.

State Budget Officer
State of Rhode Island

Carol Coletta

CEO
Memphis River Parks Partnership

Trudy Coxe

CEO and Executive Director
Preservation Society of Newport County

Carissa Demore

Team Leader for Preservation Services
Historic New England
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Carissa Demore

Team Leader for Preservation Services
Historic New England

Carla DeStefano

Executive Director
SWAP, Inc.
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Bethany Groff Dorau

Executive Director
Museum of Old Newbury

Mary Margaret Earl

Executive Director. Senior Minister
UU Urban Ministry

Kara Elliott-Ortega

Chief of Arts and Culture
City of Boston
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Barnaby Evans

Executive Artistic Director
Waterfire

R. Tripp Evans

Professor, History of Art; Chair, History of Art Program
Wheaton College

Michelle Finamore

Fashion and Design Historian and Curator
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Michelle Finamore, Ph.D.

Fashion and Design Curator

David Fithian

President
Clark University

Valerie Fletcher

Executive Director
Institute for Human Centered Design

Louis C. Fusco

Principal
Louis Fusco Landscape Architects
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Kathleen Gagne

Executive Director
Mechanics Hall

Andrew Gapinski

Director of Horticulture
Arnold Arboretum

Jenny Gersten

Interim Artistic Director
Williamstown Theatre Festival

Rosanne Haggerty

President and CEO
Community Solutions
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Dr. Françoise N. Hamlin

Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies
Brown University
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Brandon Haw

President, CEO
Brandon Haw Architecture
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Jane Hennedy

Site Manager, Southern Rhode Island
Historic New England

Elizabeth Hitchcock

Principal
The Orbit Group
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Eric Höweler, FAIA

Co-Founder, Partner
Höweler + Yoon
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Emily Kahn

Program Coordinator
National Fund for Sacred Places

Tom Kaufhold

Founder
Seacoast NH LGBT History Project

Karen Keane

CEO
Bonhams Skinner
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Rebecca Kelly

Lecturer
RISD

Phillip Kennicott

Senior Art and Architecture Critic
The Washington Post

Samantha Koslow

Director
Christie’s
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Kathy Kottaridis

Executive Director
Historic Boston Inc.
Eric Kramer

Eric Kramer

Principal
Reed Hilderbrand

Peter Krasinski

Principal Organist
Mechanics Hall
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Arthi Krishnamoorthy

Partner
Deborah Berke Partners
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Kate Lear

Board Chair
Ballet Hispánico

David Leonard

President
Boston Public Library

Gregory Lombardi

Founding Principal
Gregory Lombardi Design

Erica Lome

Associate Curator
Historic New England

Ulrich Lorimer

Director
Native Plant Trust

Leo Lovemore

Research Scholar, Adjunct Faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Rutgers University

Sarah Marchant

Chief of Staff & VP of ROC NH
New Hampshire Community Loan Fund

Marta V. Martínez, PhD

Executive Director
Rhode Island Latino Arts

Miranda Massie

Director
Climate Museum

Kenann McKenzie

Director
GLADC at Tufts University’s Tisch College of Civic Life

Sharon M. Meagher, PhD

Creative Changemaker
James Naughton

James Naughton

Actor
Williamstown Theatre Festival

Adam Osgood

Collections Technician
Historic New England

Christina H. Paxson

President
Brown University

Lynne Bryan Phipps

Founder, Executive Director
Beachwood Integrative Equine Therapy, Inc.

Doug Pizzi

Executive Director
Mass Parks for All

Nicholas Redding

President/CEO
Preservation Maryland

Jonathan Rosenbloom

Professor of Law
Albany Law School
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Byron Rushing

President
Roxbury Historical Society

Lisa Serafin

President
Athena Real Estate Development
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Christopher Serkin

Ridley Chair in Law
Vanderbilt University

Betty Siegel

Director of the Office of VSA and Accessibility
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Candelaria Silva-Collins

Chair
George B. Henderson Foundation

Carl Skelton, Dr.-Ing.

President
Gotham Innovation Greenhouse

Mayor Brett P. Smiley

Mayor
City of Providence, Rhode Island
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Anne-Marie Soulliere

Retired President
Fidelity Foundations

Lorén M. Spears

Executive Director
Tomaquag Museum

Harold Steward

Executive Director and Cultural Strategist
New England Foundation for the Arts

Heidi Swevens

Director of Community Partnerships
Inclusive Arts Vermont
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Nader Tehrani

Founding Principal
NADAAA

Doneeca Thurston

Executive Director
Lynn Museum/Lynn Arts
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Sarah Turner

President
North Bennet Street School

Valerie Tutson

Executive Director
Rhode Island Black Storytellers

Representative Andy X. Vargas

Massachusetts State Representative
Massachusetts House of Representatives | 3rd Essex District (Haverhill)

Julian Wade

President, Publisher
Davis Publications

Susan D. Whiting

Chair
National Women’s History Museum

Thomas Woltz

Principal and Owner
Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects

Claudia Wu

Attorney, Nonprofit Consultant
Center for Civic Engagement and Service

Carrie Zaslow

Executive Director
Providence Revolving Fund

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