Advisory Council on Historic Preservation

In this episode of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's podcast, Preservation Perspectives, host Expert Member Monica Rhodes speaks with the ACHP's new director of the Office of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples, Ashley Fry.

Ashley came to the ACHP from the U.S. Department of State’s Cultural Heritage Center where she was the Executive Director of the Cultural Heritage Coordinating Committee and led the White House Council on Native American Affairs International Repatriation Subcommittee. Her previous experience includes extensive work with Native American communities on the international repatriation of ancestors and significant cultural heritage, the promotion and protection of Native American art and craftwork, and the development of regulatory frameworks.

Members of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation met at the Russell Senate Office Building, Kennedy Caucus Room Nov. 19 for their fall business meeting. Chair Sara Bronin welcomed new members Lakota Hobia, chair of the National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers, and Eric Beightel, executive director of the Permitting Council, to the meeting. She also noted Susan Barnes is stepping down from her role chairing the ACHP Foundation. 

Join ACHP Chair Sara C. Bronin in Washington D.C. at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, December 12 for a third Housing and Historic Preservation Roundtable, focused on how the Washington, D.C. region can implement policies to identify solutions to their housing needs using historic buildings.

The location of the roundtable is:

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments
3rd Floor Board Room
777 North Capital Street NE
Washington, D.C.

Here is the Zoom information for virtual attendance:

WASHINGTON, DC — Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) members voted on November 4 to approve the issuance of a program comment that provides the National Park Service (NPS) with an alternative to comply with its responsibilities under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). This program comment specifically addresses the NPS’ inventory of facilities built between 1945 and 1972, a period of park development known as the Mission 66-era.

In October, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation members approved an action that initiates a new approach for federal projects informed by Native Hawaiian Indigenous Knowledge. In this new episode of the ACHP podcast, Preservation Perspectives, host Monica Rhodes speaks with ACHP Chair Sara Bronin and Tribal Member Amelia Marchand about the Exemption for Indigenous Knowledge-Informed Activities by Native Hawaiian Organizations. They discuss what it does and why it is important.