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National Convening

The National Convening took place on April 28, 2023, celebrating the culmination of Held in Trust. The Convening was held in Washington, DC, at the Library of Congress.

An exciting way to discuss the findings of the project, suggest future directions for the field, and outline the vision of a thriving, equitable, and just community of practice everyone has helped us create, a recording of the National Convening is available to view now.

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Program

Read biographies from our speakers.


1:00 pm	Jacob Nadal	Director for Preservation, Library of Congress	Land Acknowledgement
1:05 pm	Peter Trippi	FAIC Board President
1:10 pm	Dr. Carla Hayden	Librarian of Congress, Library of Congress
1:30 pm	Shelly Lowe	Chair, National Endowment for the Humanities
1:50 pm	Lissa Rosenthal-Yoffe	AIC and FAIC Executive Director
2:00 pm	Pamela Hatchfield	Held in Trust Project Coordinator
2:15 pm	Neil Barclay	President and Chief Executive Officer, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History	Sustainability, Environmental Equity, and the Role of Museums
2:30 pm	Panel	Cheyenne Caraway, UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage; Héctor Berdecía-Hernández, Director-General, Centro de Conservación y Restauración de Puerto Rico (CENCOR); Dr. Alicia McGeachy, Associate Research Scientist, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Moriah Ulinskas, Audiovisual Archivist and PhD Candidate in Public History, University of California, Santa Barbara. Moderator: Anisha Gupta, Conservator and PhD Candidate, University of Delaware	The Need for Change
3:20 pm	Coffee Break
4:10 pm	Brent Leggs	Executive Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, National Trust for Historic Preservation	Inspiring Collaboration and Mobilizing Communities: Preserving the Landmarks of African American History
4:30 pm	Tatiana Ausema and Briann Greenfield	Senior Program Officer, Office of Challenge Programs, and Director, Division of Preservation and Access, National Endowment for the Humanities	The Humanities and Conservation: A Crucial Partnership
4:40 pm	Suzanne Davis	Associate Curator of Conservation, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan, AIC Board President	Let Me Tell You a Story: Community Partnerships & Storytelling in Conservation
4:50 pm	Brian Vallo	Former Governor, Pueblo of Acoma	Accountability and Collaboration: Native American Representation in Museums
5:05pm	Jeanelle Austin	Executive Director and Co-founder, George Floyd Global Memorial	Starting with Culture in Cultural Heritage Preservation
5:30 pm	Pamela Hatchfield	Held in Trust Project Coordinator
5:45 pm	Peter Trippi	FAIC Board President