Draft:Monica Rhodes

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Monica Rhodes
Born (1984-05-20) May 20, 1984 (age 39)
Waco, Texas, U.S.
Websitehttps://themonicarhodes.com

Monica Rhodes (born May 20, 1984) is an American historic and cultural preservationist. She is the expert member of the US Advisory Council on Historic Preservation under the Biden administration and a 2023-2026 member of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) Board of Directors.

Early career and education[edit]

Rhodes graduated from The University of Tulsa in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in History, from Temple University (2008) with a Master of Arts in African-American Studies and from the University of Pennsylvania (2012) with a Master of Science in Historic Preservation. In 2008, Rhodes worked as an intern to help identify and document African American history in eight Pennsylvanian cities for the Preserve America Program - a joint effort between the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission and the African American Museum - which demonstrated the potential for more collaborative approaches to preserving cultural heritage sites.[1]

As a graduate student, Rhodes also won a Mildred Colodny Diversity Scholarship program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and focused her efforts on preservation at Fort Monroe National Monument (“Freedom’s Fortress”). She helped identify and engage eight historic Black churches and wrote a letter on their behalf to then-President Barack Obama in support of park designation. In 2012, President Obama used his powers for the first time under the Antiquities Act of 1906, to declare Fort Monroe a National Monument, a unit of the National Park Service.[2]  After earning her masters degree, Rhodes served as a consultant with the National Trust on the Partners in Preservation was the project manager for the DC Metropolitan area program. Under her leadership, the program engaged 24 historic sites on project development, marketing and community engagement strategies, awarding a total of $1M in support of those preservation efforts.[3]

Career[edit]

Rhodes became the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Founding Director of the Hands-On Preservation Experience (HOPE) Crew in 2013.[4] The program was formed to engage a new generation of preservationists, increase diversity in the field of historic preservation and help address a deferred maintenance backlog with the National Park Service. The program engaged the public through paid training programs (which offered training in preservation trades like stone masonry, carpentry and roofing) and volunteer-driven programs.[5]

She helped create a partnership between The National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and the National Park Service (NPS) to develop a pipeline of Black preservation architects in the US. This partnership created the Preservation in Practice program which allowed the HOPE Crew to develop relationships with historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to help diversify the fields of architecture and historic preservation.[6]

Rhodes was also a part of a nationwide effort to raise awareness of the proposed Great American Outdoors Act, legislation that would allocate up to $1.3B per year on park infrastructure investments over a five year period.[7] As Director of Resource Management of the National Park Foundation (2019-2021), Rhodes oversaw facility grant making to the National Park Service.[8]

Rhodes serves as an advisor to the Center for the Preservation of Civil Rights Sites at the Weitzman School of Design at University of Pennsylvania.[9]

Biden administration

On April 14, 2023, Rhodes was sworn in as a presidentially appointed expert member to the United States Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP).[10] The ACHP is an independent federal agency that promotes the educational, economic and cultural values of historic preservation and advises the President and Congress on national historic preservation policy. It also influences federal activities, programs and policies that affect historic and cultural properties.[11] Rhodes chairs the Communications, Education and Outreach committee.

Awards and recognitions[edit]

Rhodes is a 2023 Adele Chatfield-Taylor Rome Prize Fellow in Historic Preservation and Conservation at the American Academy in Rome[12] and a 2022 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University.[13] In 2022, Architectural Record awarded Rhodes the Women of the Year in Design Leadership Award.[14]  She is also the 2022 recipient of the Open Door Award by the Frances Perkins Center.[15]

Selected media appearances[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Communities in Common: Pennsylvania's African American Historic Resources" (PDF).
  2. ^ Bowers, Tanya (Winter 2015). "National Treasures Program Strategies for Engaging Diverse Communities". Forum Journal. 29 (2): 39–48.
  3. ^ "Partners in Preservation | National Trust for Historic Preservation". savingplaces.org. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  4. ^ "HOPE Crew Brings In Young Workers To Preserve Fort Wadsworth, Other Historic Sites - CBS New York". www.cbsnews.com. 2017-09-21. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  5. ^ "HOPE Crew | National Trust for Historic Preservation". savingplaces.org. 2023-09-21. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  6. ^ "Historically Black Baltimore University Wants to Diversify Architecture". nextcity.org. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  7. ^ "Great American Outdoors Act". www.doi.gov. 2022-06-28. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  8. ^ "Andrea Roberts, "The Community Core: Making and Keeping Place Heritage in Texas's Freedom Colonies"". Harvard Graduate School of Design. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  9. ^ "Monica Rhodes | CPCRS". cpcrs.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  10. ^ "New Members Appointed by President Biden Sworn in to ACHP | Advisory Council on Historic Preservation". www.achp.gov. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  11. ^ "| Advisory Council on Historic Preservation". www.achp.gov. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  12. ^ Rome, American Academy in (2023-01-26). "Monica Rhodes". www.aarome.org. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  13. ^ "The LOEB Fellowship | Monica Rhodes". The LOEB Fellowship. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  14. ^ "Monica Rhodes". www.architecturalrecord.com. Retrieved 2023-11-30.
  15. ^ "Inaugural Homestead Day 2022". Frances Perkins Center. Retrieved 2023-11-30.

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