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Leadership + Staff

headshot of Randall Randall F. Mason

Faculty director

brent leggs headshot Brent Leggs

Senior Advisor

monica rhodes headshot Monica Rhodes

Director of Partnerships

headshot Sarah Lerner

Manager

headshot Steph Garcia

Project Coordinator

headshot of woman in yellow sweater Kenyatta McLean

Research Fellow

Chris Rodgers Christopher R. Rogers

Research Fellow

headshot of research fellow Charlette Caldwell

Research Fellow

Donison Elizabeth Donison

Research Assistant

Spahle Shae Spahle

Research Assistant

Jingyi_Luo Jingyi Luo

Research Assistant

Amber_Wiley Amber Wiley

Matt and Erika Nord Director (starting Summer 2023)

Advisors

headshot Bill Adair

Independent arts and culture consultant

headshot Kwesi Daniels

Department Head, Assistant Professor Taylor School of Architecture and Construction Science, Tuskegee University

headshot Amy Freitag

Executive Director, The J.M. Kaplan Fund

headshot Mark Gardner

Member of Board of Advisors of the Weitzman School of Design
Principal at Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects (J/GA)

headshot Kevin Penn

Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania
Chairman of the Board of Advisors of the Weitzman School of Design
Managing Director at American Securities, LLC

headshot Lynn Meskell

Richard D. Green Professor of Anthropology in the School of Arts and Sciences
Professor in the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation
Curator in the Middle East and Asia sections at the Penn Museum

headshot Matthew Nord

Member of the Board of Advisors of the Weitzman School of Design
Senior Partner at Apollo Private Equity

headshot Aaron Wunsch

Associate professor, Historic Preservation/ Landscape Architecture

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