Description
December 9- Part of the 2026 Fall Speaker Series
Location
In-person at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 219 S 6th St, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Date & Time
December 9, 2026 at 6pm
Part of the 2026 Fall Speaker Series
Special Guest: Brent Leggs, CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation
Brent Leggs is the eleventh President and CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and has served in the role since 2026. Brent has been with the National Trust for over twenty years, most recently as the founding executive director of its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, which has raised over $200 million for the preservation of sites associated with Black history across the country.
Brent is a former Resident of the American Academy in Rome, Harvard University Loeb Fellow, 2018 recipient of the Robert G. Stanton National Preservation Award, and author of Preserving African American Historic Places, which is considered the “seminal publication on preserving African American historic sites” by the Smithsonian Institution.
Q&A and refreshments to follow.
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