2024 Annual Conference Speakers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Carol Quillen, President and CEO
National Trust for Historic Preservation

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Kim Trent, Executive Director
National Preservation Partners Network

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Inez Ribustello, Author and Entrepreneur
On the Square and Tarboro Brewing Company

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Michael Goodmon
Executive Vice President
Capitol Broadcasting Company

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Evan Covington Chavez
Director of Real Estate
Rocky Mount Mills

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Benton Moss
East Rock Development
Simmons & Harris
Twin County Media

Nasir Dukes
Dukes Properties

Milan Mehta, AIA, NCARB, LEED AP
Union3Studio

Dr. Darin Waters, Deputy Secretary
NC Office of Archives & History

David Maurer, AIA, LEED-AP
President, Maurer Architecture

Philip J. Merrill, CEO and Founder
Nanny Jack, LLC

Veronica A. Carr
Digital Media Strategist and Researcher

Celeste Beatty, Founder and Brewer
Harlem Brewing Company

Julianne Patterson, Executive Director
Preservation Durham

Debra Taylor Gonzalez-Garcia
Genealogist and Author

Melissa A. Timo, M.A., R.P.A.
Office of State Archaeology
Historic Cemetery Specialist

Natalie Pass Miller, Owner
The Historic Magnolia House

Angela Thorpe Mason, Executive Director
Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice

Gareth Evans, Executive Director
Bellamy Mansion Museum

Dr. Mark L. Pickel, CFO
The Biltmore Company

Terrance Ruth, Asst. Professor
NC State University School of Social Work

Carmen Cauthen, Author
Historic Black Neighborhoods of Raleigh

Judge Beverly Scarlett,
Co-Founder, Indigenous Memories

Dr. Freddie Parker, Professor of History
North Carolina Central University

Melvin D. Speight
Hayti Reborn

Jennifer Martin and Cynthia de Miranda
Partners, MdM Historical Consultants

Pofue Yang, Architectural Historian
Richard Grubb & Associates

Ellen Turco, Principal, NC Branch Manager
Richard Grubb & Associates

Annie McDonald, Senior Architectural Historian
Richard Grubb & Associates

David Riccio, Principal and President
John Canning & Co.

Adrienne Copland
Preservation Rocky Mount

Peter F. Varney
Preservation Rocky Mount

Jeffrey P. Anderson, AIA
Joseph K. Oppermann – Architect, PA

Sandy Roberson
Mayor, Rocky Mount NC

The Rev. Stephen Mazingo
Calvary Episcopal Church, Tarboro

Tate Mayo
Mayor, Tarboro NC

Megan Funk, Architectural Historian
Chronicle Heritage

Mavis Stith, President, Phoenix Historical Society
James Wrenn, Vice President, Phoenix Historical Society