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Former journalist, government communications specialist, property appraiser and later, a community organizer with Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area, Pittsburgh, PA region; former Executive Director, Historic Preservation Trust of Lancaster County. Now on staff at LancasterHistory, conducting research and community outreach for the Thaddeus Stevens & Lydia Hamilton Smith Center for History and Democracy. Also a consulting historian specializing in the nexus of community economic development and heritage tourism development, with emphasis on the research and documentation of sites associated with the Underground Railroad Movement. A Partner in the National Park Service Underground Railroad Network to Freedom, involved in the designation of 20 Sites, Programs and Facilities in the Network across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.