Meet Our Global Team
Preserving Legacies is powered by a growing team of diverse climate heritage champions. Get to know the thought leaders, scientists, storytellers, site custodians, and community advocates on a mission to safeguard every site against current and future climate impacts.
Leadership Team
Managed by National Geographic Explorer Dr. Victoria Herrmann, this ambitious project requires a global organization and dedicated team to plan, develop, execute, and evaluate all project activities. Meet them below.
Site Custodians
The site custodians of Preserving Legacies are the heart of this project. Each site in Preserving Legacies is represented by two site custodians, who come from community organizations, management authorities, and nonprofits to learn about climate heritage and act at their sites.
Chiara Ronchini
Scientific Steering Committee
The Scientific Steering Committee serves as an advisory board and community of champions in service of this mission. Members bring valuable specialized information, experience, skills, and geographic reach of ICOMOS National Committees so that the impact of Preserving Legacies can reach further.
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Storytellers
This project team deeply believes that artists have a unique and vital role to play in responding to climate change, and believes in the power of creative communication in raising awareness of climate change impacts. Through their work, artists can foster personal and emotional connection to the issue, encourage empathy and collaboration, imagine new futures, and in so doing help effect positive change.
Preserving Legacies provides meaningful support to local artists to take part in this project, document the process of protecting cultural heritage sites from climate change impacts, foster connections between project members and the artist, and include artist in a global community of practice on climate heritage with other artists, heritage professionals, scientists, educators, and advocates tackling climate change.
The work created through this residency will allow communities across the world to see and experience the project’s process, work, and mission to protect heritage sites from climate change impacts. Artists will create site-inspired artwork and document the process of the project.
Check back for updates from our artists-in-residence here.
Our partners
The climate crisis is too big to go at it alone and we are honored to work with partners who share our vision.
