Diamond Crowder, Underrepresented Communities Survey and National Register Manager at the State Historic Preservation Office, has experience with identifying and nominating underrepresented communities, specifically, African American communities’ historic sites to the National Register of Historic Places. Diamond has a B.A. and M.A. in History, University of Toledo (with major areas of study Early American History, African American History, and Women and Gender History) and is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation that specifically focuses on African American women post Emancipation from University of Cincinnati where she also teaching United States History Survey courses and African American History courses.