Who We Are
The organization functions through the effort of
Board of Directors
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Lindsey Milstein
President & Board Co-Chair
Lindsey has served as a Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy board member since 2012 and, since 2014, is serving as president. She is co-founder of the Conservancy’s Leave No Child Inside Environmental Education Program created in 2014. Prior to advocating for the restoration and preservation of Dumbarton Oaks Park, she founded and led DIG, a landscape design-build firm based in the Pacific Northwest.
Elizabeth 'Liza' Gilbert
Treasurer & Board Co-Chair
Liza is a landscape designer based in Washington, DC. Since 2012, she has served as a board member of Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy and since January 2019 is serving as Board Co-Chair. She received an MA in landscape architecture from the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. She has worked at the New York firms of Michael Van Valkenburg Associates and Judith Heintz Landscape Architecture: at Douglas Reed Landscape Architecture, Cambridge, MA; and at Giannini & Vagnetti Architetti in Rome, Italy. She had the honor to serve on the Commission of Fine Arts from 2014-2019.
Lou Slade
1st Vice President & Co-Founder
Professional Engineer (retired), founder of Gorove/Slade Associates, Inc. a transportation planning and engineering consulting firm; Board Member of FONA, Friends of the National Arboretum in Washington D.C.
George 'Buzz' Seltzer
2nd Vice President
Mr. Seltzer retired from 3U Technologies LLC., an ocean engineering and specialty engineering firm, in 2014 as Vice President of Engineering. He holds bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College in Mechanical Engineering, a Master of Science degree in Ocean Engineering from the University of Washington and a Certificate in Landscape Design from George Washington University. He retired from the U.S. Navy with the rank of Commander in the Civil Engineer Corps after serving for 22 years.
Michael Rankin
Board Member
Principal & Managing Partner TTR | Sotheby’s International Realty, a resident of Georgetown and frequent Park visitor.
Dina Curtis
Board Member
Chief of Staff at the Calvert Impact Capital, a nonprofit foundation devoted to social impact investing. From 2005 – 2011, Director of the Washington, DC Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Foundation.
Advisory Board
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David Kamp, FASLA
Principal of Dirtworks in New York City; internationally recognized leader in the design of “healing gardens”.
Robin Karson
Director of the Library of American Landscape History; author of “A Genius for Place – American Landscapes of the Country Place Era”.
Jane MacLeish
Landscape designer and co-founder of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy.
Reuben Rainey
Professor Emeritus at University of Virginia retired William Stone Weedon Professor in the History of Landscape Architecture; PhD. in Comparative Religion; graduate of Union Theological Seminary.
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Executive Director of the Foundation for Landscape Studies; Founding President of the Central Park Conservancy.
Martin Rosen
Founder and former Executive Director, Trust for Public Land.
Judith B. Tankard
Landscape historian; preservation consultant; and author of “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes;” Former vice-president of the Beatrix Farrand Society.
D. Dodge Thompson
Chief of Exhibitions, National Gallery of Art.
Rebecca Trafton
Executive producer and host of the PBS series “GardenStory~ Inspiring Spaces, Healing Places;” landscape designer; Trustee Emeritus- Shenandoah National Park Trust and Stewardship Council member-The Cultural Landscape Foundation; co-founder, Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy, 2010.
Staff
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Lindsey Milstein
President & Board Co-Chair
Lindsey has served as a Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy board member since 2012 and, since 2014, is serving as president. She is co-founder of the Conservancy’s Leave No Child Inside Environmental Education Program created in 2014. Prior to advocating for the restoration and preservation of Dumbarton Oaks Park, she founded and led DIG, a landscape design-build firm based in the Pacific Northwest.
Lindsey@Dopark.org
Ann Aldrich
Botanist, Senior Advisor
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Aaldrich@Dopark.org
Christine Morano Magee, Ed.D.
Director of Education
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Cmmagee@Dopark.org
Maria Jose ‘MJ’ Garcia
Restoration & Development Associate
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MJ@Dopark.org
Andrew Liaupsin
Post Graduate Fellow Leave No Child Behind Environmental Education
Andy is From Tucson Arizona attended George Washington University, Washington, DC Bachelor of Arts History May 2023 Minor in STEM Education Andy was a Huntley Meadows Park Fairfax, Virginia Naturalist Intern June 2022 - August 2022 and is a graduate of the GW Teach Program at George Washington University.
email@dopark.org
Maya Patal Post
Post Graduate Fellow in Nonprofit Management
Maya is from ? Attended University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK MPhil in Psychology and Education (Merit) July 2021 Organizations/Awards: British Psychological Society Graduate Membership, CULP Advanced Italian Award Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY B.A. in Psychology and Italian Language Studies (GPA: 3.7) July 2019 Middlebury Language Schools – Study Abroad in Firenze, Italy (2018 – 2019)
email@dopark.org
Interns
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Volunteers
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