Historical Society Staff and Board of Trustees
Historical Society Staff DirectorySandy Bellamy
Executive Director
202.383.1810
bellamy@historydc.org
Yvonne Carignan
Director, Kiplinger Research Library and Collections
202.383.1851
carignan@historydc.org
Leslie White
Development Manager
202.383.1837
Lwhite@historydc.org
Dottie Green
Public Programs Manager
202.383.1835
green@historydc.org
Elizabeth Dreux
Special Events Manager
202.383.1829
dreux@historydc.org
Karen L. Sallis
Public Programs Associate
202.383.1828
KLSallis@historydc.org
Carlos Elazier
Executive Assistant
202-383-1853
elazier@historydc.org
Jarold Acosta
Facilities
202.383.1808
Acosta@historydc.org
Merrick T. Malone, Esq., Chair
Metropolis Development Company LLC
Principal
Alexander M. Padro, Vice-Chair
Shaw Main Streets, Inc.
Executive Director
Carol R. Felix, Vice-Chair
Felix Design, Inc.
Owner / Designer
Kateri A. Ellison, Secretary
Kateri Jolivette Designs
Owner/Designer
Bert T. Edwards, Treasurer
Office of Historical Trust Accounting
U.S. Department of the Interior
Cindy S. Aron
University of Virginia
Professor of History
Robert A. Barbuto
Merrill Lynch
Financial Advisor
Denise Rolark Barnes
The Washington Informer
Publisher
Allison M. Bickers
Cooper Carry, Inc.
Planner/Historic Preservation Specialist
Richard Bradley
Downtown DC Business Improvement District
Director
Carl Cole
D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities
Board of Directors
Mary Beth Corrigan
Independent Curator
Russell A. Dawson
Potomac Communications Group, Inc.
Senior Vice President
Bernard Demczuk, Vice-Chair
George Washington University
Assistant V.P. for DC Affairs
Damon Downing
Washington Gas, Design Build Group
Director of Government Accounts
Douglas E. Evelyn
National Museum of American History
Museum of the American Indian
Deputy Director, Retired Scholar
John A. Fleckner
National Museum of American History
Senior Archivist, Retired,
Newman T. (Thor) Halvorson, Jr.
Covington and Burling LLP
Partner, Retired
Don Hawkins
Don A. Hawkins Architect
Austin H. Kiplinger
Kiplinger Washington Editors
Thornell K. Page
Page Research Associates, Inc.
President and CEO
Woodruff Price
Government Relations, Retired
Daniel A. Reznick, Esq.
Office of the D.C. Attorney General
Assistant Attorney General
Scott H. Segal
Bracewell & Giuliani
Partner
Frank Smith, Jr.
African American Civil War Memorial and Museum
Founding Director
Kathryn S. Smith
Historian and Cultural Tourism Consultant
Joseph G. Svatos
Akridge
Senior Vice President
Ed Swailes
The Syndicate, Inc.
President
Donna Wells
Moorland-Springham Research Center
Howard University
Archivist
Ex-Officio
Vincent C. Gray
Chair
Council of the District of Columbia
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Delegate
U.S. House of Representatives
Adrian M. Fenty
Mayor
District of Columbia
Trustees Emeriti
Albert H. Small
Southern Engineering Corp.
Thomas E. Carroll
Carroll Publishing