Ramona M. Bartos serves as Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer for the State of North Carolina, and Division Director of the Division of Historical Resources within the Office of Archives and History of the North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources.  

She earned a joint Juris Doctor (cum laude) and Master of Historic Preservation degrees from the University of Georgia, and Bachelor of Arts degrees in History and International Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was a Robert W. Woodruff Scholar and elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  

Prior to entering state public service, she was a private practice attorney and civil mediator for a decade in Georgia, serving a variety of private and local government clients. 

Craig A. Potts is the Executive Director of the Kentucky Heritage Council, a state agency responsible for the identification, protection and preservation of historic buildings and resources, archaeological sites and cultural landscapes throughout the Commonwealth. As State Historic Preservation Officer, Mr. Potts manages a staff of 26 whose responsibilities also include administering state and federal historic rehabilitation tax credit programs, Section 106 Review, the Kentucky Main Street program, historic sites survey, the National Register of Historic Places, preservation planning, the Certified Local Government (CLG) program, and staff support for the State Review Board, Kentucky African American and Kentucky Native American Heritage Commissions, Martin Luther King, Jr. State Commission, Perryville Battlefield Commission and the Kentucky Military Heritage Commission. 

Craig has served on the NCSHPO Board of Directors since 2017 and is the organization’s current Vice President. He has over 25 years of professional experience in the field of historic preservation and holds a MA in Architectural History and a MFA in Historic Preservation from the Savannah College of Art and Design and a BA in History from Wittenberg University. In his spare time, Craig rehabilitates and manages historic commercial buildings in his hometown of Frankfort, Kentucky where he lives with his wife Amy and two teenage sons, Sam and Simon.

Christine Curran is an agency deputy director and head of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department’s Heritage Division. She serves as the state’s Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. A native Oregonian, Chrissy has been with the Heritage Division in various roles since 1999. She was appointed division director and Deputy SHPO in 2015 and oversees a 20-member office that includes the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), Oregon Main Street, Oregon Heritage Commission, Oregon Commission on Historic Cemeteries, archaeological permitting, and several outreach and grant programs.

Daina Penkiunas serves as Wisconsin’s State Historic Preservation Officer at the Wisconsin Historical Society. Prior to assuming her first permanent position in the Wisconsin SHPO over 20 years ago as the National Register Coordinator, Daina worked as an architectural historian for the Historical Society’s Museum Archaeology Program, as a private preservation consultant, a college lecturer, and in the Hawaii State Historic Preservation Office. 

Daina holds a Master’s and PhD in architectural history from the University of Virginia and a Bachelor’s degree in architectural history and preservation from the University of Maryland.

Brian Beadles assumed his current position of Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer in 2020, having previously overseen the National Register and Historic Preservation Tax Credit programs for the Wyoming SHPO since 2011. Having grown up in various cities in Illinois and Indiana, Brian earned his Master’s degree in Historic Preservation Planning at Cornell University, and holds undergraduate degrees in Anthropology and English from the University of Illinois. 

Previously, he worked for the Tennessee Historical Commission where he edited and wrote National Register of Historic Places nominations and served as a Senior Surveyor for the Historic Landmarks Foundation of Indiana performing countywide cultural resource surveys. Brian lives in Cheyenne and enjoys music, hiking, and long-distance running.

Dr. Allyson Brooks serves as the Director of the WA Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation and the State Historic Preservation Officer. She has served in this role under three Governors. Previously, Dr. Brooks was an archaeologist for the Minnesota Department of Transportation where she balanced protecting historic properties with the delivery of transportation projects. Prior to going to Minnesota she was the staff archaeologist for the South Dakota Historic Preservation Office. 

Dr. Brooks has been part of archaeological investigations across the United States from Alaska to South Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada, Maine and Connecticut. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from University of Nevada, a MPA from the University of Washington, a Certificate in environmental regulation from the University of Washington, an M Sc. in industrial and historical archaeology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, a BA from McGill University in Montreal Canada, and is a 2nd degree Black Belt in Taekwondo.

Ashley Meredith joined the Federated States of Micronesia Government in 2016, where she collaborates with multi-lateral teams and historic preservation colleagues across the country to strengthen the nation’s projects and historic preservation programs. Her work includes heritage conservation through survey and inventory, experiential learning opportunities, developing field methods, practicing community-based anthropology, and employing geography and GIS methods. 

Serving as FSM’s National Cultural Anthropologist and Deputy National Historic Preservation Officer, she builds upon FSM’s strong relationships between the HPOs and community organizations. She and her colleagues grew deep roots in FSM that include research on wayfinding, food sovereignty, human origins and settlement, as well as socio-political organization.

Anne B. Raines serves as Deputy Director/Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer at the Maryland Historical Trust (MHT), part of the Maryland Department of Planning. Prior to assuming her current role in 2017, she worked as the Capital Grants and Loans Administrator at MHT. 

Anne earned her MSc in Architectural Conservation with distinction from Edinburgh College of Art (University of Edinburgh) in 2009. Prior to that, she earned her Bachelor of Architecture at North Carolina State University, and then worked several years as an architect in the United States and United Kingdom.