Carol Quillen is the president and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

As chief impact officer, Tabitha Almquist leads and co-leads many cross-organization initiatives, as well as the National Trust’s research and development team, ensuring that our work demonstrates how preservation serves people and communities.

Omar Eaton-Martínez is the senior vice president for historic sites, where he leads the preservation, interpretation, and overall stewardship of 28 National Trust Historic Sites across the country to tell the full American story. He has had leading roles in racial equity organizations like Museums and Race: Transformation and Justice and Museum Hue as well as a part of the Museum as Site for Social Action project. Omar participated as an American Alliance of Museums Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI) Senior Fellow, which is dedicated to diversifying museum boards. He serves as a trustee for the International National Trusts Organisation and serves on the board of directors for the Association of African American Museums as Immediate Past Chair.

Di Gao serves as the senior director of research and development, leading a team that provides technical and analytical support to strategic initiatives across the National Trust. Di is responsible for developing new preservation initiatives including the America’s Chinatowns program, supporting project execution across various preservation initiatives, conducting feasibility analysis and business planning, helping to grow the organization’s GIS practice, and identifying growth areas for the National Trust. Di’s work is currently focused on the intersection of preservation and equity, inclusion, and social justice, and mobilizing preservation action to better support America’s Chinatowns and other APIA ethnic enclaves.

Brent Leggs is the founding executive director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, the largest preservation campaign in U.S. history on behalf of historic African American places, and a senior vice president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Through the Fund, he leads a national community of leaders, preservationists, and activists to preserve the memory and legacy of Black American identity. Leggs’ work is rooted in telling the nation’s full history and leveraging historic preservation to mitigate the erasure of African American cultural heritage.

Tom Mayes, chief legal officer and general counsel, has worked on the full range of National Trust legal issues since he joined the National Trust in 1986. In addition to leading the law division, he oversees human resources. A recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Rome Prize in Historic Preservation in 2013, Tom is the author of the book Why Old Places Matter.

As chief development officer, Ann McElwain leads development and implementation of all fundraising strategies for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, including individual, annual and planning giving, institutional philanthropy, and donor research, analytics, communications and stewardship.

Rob Nieweg leads the Preservation Initiatives Division, which manages the lion’s share of the National Trust’s grantmaking and technical assistance, convenes and connects people to promote best practices in preservation, and advocates to protect endangered historic places. Dedicated preservation professionals in the Preservation Initiatives Division implement the National Fund for Sacred Places, Travelers Across America initiative, Backing Historic Small Restaurants grant program, Preserve Route 66 initiative, Where Women Made History program, PastForward national convenings, Diversity in Preservation Scholars Program, HOPE Crew, National Trust Preservation Fund, National Awards Program, Preservation Priorities Task Force, National Trust Advisors program, and the annual list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.

As the chief public affairs officer, Meredith Beaton Pruitt leads the effort to engage and inspire the National Trust’s core supporters and develop new audiences.

As the chief financial officer of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Natalie Robinson reports to the president and the board on all aspects of the financial health of the organization. She oversees accounting and financial reporting, budgeting, treasury, financial analysis, and works with the Investments Committee and external advisors to manage the endowment, information technology, and real estate needs of the organization.

Shaw Sprague is the vice president of government relations, where he oversees the organization’s advocacy priorities before Congress and the Administration. Shaw leads a dynamic team of advocacy professionals in support of funding for historic preservation programs, strengthening state and federal incentives that promote building reuse, and preserving the places and stories that provide meaning to our nation. Shaw serves as the National Trust’s ex officio board representative for President Lincoln’s Cottage and Preservation Action. He also serves as an Advisory Trustee of Maine Preservation. Prior to his time with the National Trust, Shaw advocated for land conservation funding while at The Trust for Public Land and also worked as a legislative assistant to Senator Susan Collins on Capitol Hill.