Conference Speakers

Gregory Payton

Director of Living Collections at The Dawes Arboretum

Jayme Blackstone

Career Development Coordinator at C-TEC

Matt Wiederhold

Executive Director at Heritage Ohio

Frank Quinn

Director of Preservation at Heritage Ohio

Frances Jo Hamilton

Director of Revitalization at Heritage Ohio

Jacqueline Langhals

Executive Director of Go Ottawa

Nathalie Wright

Historic Preservation Consultant

Aaron Domini

Principal at OHM Advisors

Brad Lepper

Senior Archaeologist at the Ohio History Connection

Jennifer Aultman

Chief Historic Sites Officer at the Ohio History Connection

Scott Voelkerding

Director of Fire & Life Safety at Osborn Engineering

Jocelyn Hartshorn

Senior Vice President/Chief Lending Officer for TrueCore Federal Credit Union

Kevin Cox

Financial Advisor at Edward Jones

Dan Moder

Executive Director at Explore Licking County

Kathleen Norris

Broker & Managing Principal at Urban Fast Forward

Nate Weyand-Geise

Urban Planner at Urban Fast Forward

Jennifer Roberts

Executive Director of the Newark Campus Development Fund

Frank Russell

Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Cincinnati

Jaime Greene

Principal at Planning NEXT

Sanyog Rathod

Founder of Sol design + consulting

Dana Matz

President of the Zanesville-Muskingum County Chamber of Commerce

Kristi Tanner

Senior Managing Director at JobsOhio

Sean Logan

Government Relations Consultant at Sean Logan & Associates, LLC

Amy Sealts

Director of Economic Development at The Putnam County CIC

Danielle Steinhauser

Community Development Specialist with CT Consultants

Craig Gossman

Principal & Owner of the Gossman Group

Leslie Wagner

Historian at The Dawes Arboretum

Tim Keith

Commercial Lender at Park National Bank

Chad Arfons

Attorney at McDonald Hopkins

David Mertz

Professor Emeritus at Belmont College

Betsy Bowen

Pastor at John Stewart Methodist Church

Todd Peetz

Director at Portage County Regional Planning Commission

Melinda Shah

Vice President & COO at Schooley Caldwell

Melinda Huntley

Executive Director of the Ohio Travel Association

Gordon Goldie

Partner at Plante Moran

Nathan Ware

Partner at BakerHostetler

Marie Hickle

Vice President of Tax Credit Investment Group at PNC Bank

Sara Bronin

Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

Mariangela Pfister

Department Head and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer for Technical Preservation Services

Lisa Brownell

Ohio Historic Preservation Tax Credit Program Manager

Diamond Crowder

Underrepresented Communities Survey & National Register Manager

Barb Powers

Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer for Inventory and Registration

Ben Levenger

President of Downtown Redevelopment Services

Graham Kalbli

Principal at New Republic Architecture

Petra Knapp

Survey & National Register Manager

Abby Marshall

Survey and National Register Manager for Inventory and Registration

Carrie Simmons

Survey and National Register Technical Specialist in the Inventory and Registration

Mary Rody

Survey & National Register Reviews Manager

Casey Juday

Project Assistant for the Education and Support Services Department at the State Historic Preservation Office

Billy Friend

Chief of the Wyandotte Nation

David Robinson

Principal & Founder at The Montrose Group

Krista Horrocks

Department Manager of Education and Support Services at the State Historic Preservation Office

Justin Copenhaver

CEO & Founder of Urality

Jeff Hall

Mayor of Newark

Fred Ernest

Executive Director of Newark Development Partners

Brent Lane

Senior Executive in Residence at the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University

Carrie Manno

Single Family Tax Credit Section Chief at the Ohio Housing Finance Agency