What drew me to the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (CWF) is its vision for the future. So that the future may learn from the past, the CWF wants to build on its impressive reputation and deeds as a museum to lead in digital and virtual experiences that help people all over the world, as well as across the United States, better understand early American history and how that history is integral to the present we inhabit and experience today.
In a time when history, historical knowledge, and historical education and outreach are both crucial and beleaguered, I want to be in a position where I can work for the good of a historical organization, the historical profession, and American society. I want to do work that has a similar impact to the work I’m doing now, but on a larger scale. Serving as the executive director or president of a significant cultural institution will provide me with the opportunities I seek.
Strangehold is a weekly podcast by New Hampshire Public Radio that is determined to grapple with the questions of why does a state with a population of 1.356 million people, 90 percent of who are white, always gets to vote first in the presidential election cycle? And is it fair for New Hampshire to continue its tradition of voting first when the state is not truly representative of the demography of the United States?
