Presidential Sites Summit Speakers
Speakers and Biographies
The White House Historical Association is pleased to welcome all of our speakers for the Presidential Sites Summit on September 25 - 28, 2023. To learn more about each speaker, see their biographies below.
Avery Akkineni
President, Vayner3
Joni Albrecht
Director, John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics
Todd Arrington
Site Manager, James A. Garfield National Historic Site
Jay Barth
Director, William J. Clinton Presidential Library and Museum
Felicia Bell
Senior Advisor to the Director, National Museum of American History
Jeremy Bernard
Former White House Social Secretary to President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama
Sara Bon-Harper
Executive Director, James Monroe’s Highland
Amy Bracewell
Superintendent, Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
Greta Brawner
Host & Executive Producer for Public Affairs Programming, C-SPAN
John Bridgeland
Co-Chair & CEO, More Perfect & Former Director, White House Domestic Policy Council
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
Gahl Hodges Burt
Former White House Social Secretary to President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan
James T. (“Jim”) Byron
President & CEO, Richard Nixon Foundation
Diana B. Carlin
Professor Emerita of Communication at Saint Louis University
Teresa Carlson
Vice Chairperson, White House Historical Association Board of Directors
Cheri Carter
Vice President of Boeing Global Engagement, The Boeing Company
Jean M. Case
Chairman, National Geographic and Member of the White House Historical Association’s Board of Directors
Brooke Clement
Director, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
Matthew R. Costello
Chief Education Officer, White House Historical Association
Chris Cummings
Founder & CEO, Iconic Moments
Ashley Dabbiere
Board Member, White House Historical Association
Mike Duncan
History Podcaster and author
Meredith Evans
Director, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Barbara Franklin
29th U.S. Secretary of Commerce
Elizabeth Ghosh
Partner Manager, Meta
Tammy Haddad
President & CEO, Haddad Media
Deneen Howell
Board Member, White House Historical Association
Anthea M. Hartig
Elizabeth MacMillan Director, National Museum of American History
Carla Hayden
Librarian of Congress
Nik Honeysett
CEO, Balboa Park Online Collaborative
Gayle Jessup White
Public Relations and Community Engagement Officer at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Julia Kaufman
Associate Department Director & Senior Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation
Caroline Klibanoff
Executive Director, Made by Us
Kate Clarke Lemay
Curator & Historian, National Portrait Gallery
Anita B. McBride
Chair, Presidential Sites Summit
Stewart D. McLaurin
President, White House Historical Association
Rodrigo Bollat Montenegro
Next-Gen Leader Co-Chair, White House Historical Association
Jonathan Munar
Arts Team, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Fionnghuala (“Fig”) O’Reilly
Founder of Space to Reach and White House Historical Association Next Generation Leader
Barbara Perry
Gerald L. Baliles Professor and co-chair, Presidential Oral History Program
John F. W. Rogers
Chairman, White House Historical Association Board of Directors
David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-CEO, The Carlyle Group
Charles F. (“Chuck”) Sams III
Director of the National Park Service
Colleen Shogan
Archivist of the United States
Christina Shutt
Executive Director, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
Julie Silverbrook
Senior Director of Partnerships & Constitutional Scholar in Residence, iCivics
Nancy Kegan Smith
Author and Former Director of the Presidential Materials Division of the National Archives and Records Administration
Sara Kanawati Stephany
Co-Chair, New Frontier Network at the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation