Panel to include:
Dr. Julie Yarwood, Author, Washington 101 Textbook and Historian, Catholic University
Julie Yarwood, PhD in American History from Catholic University of America (January 2016) is co-author of Washington 101: An Introduction to the Nation's Capital (2014). She is an academic advisor and teaches in the history department at The Catholic University of America.
Dr. Peter Ufland, Historian, University of the District of Columbia Community College
Peter Ufland is a professor in the Liberal Studies Department of the University of the District of Columbia Community College. He advises the UDC-CC chapter of the Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society. He is active in the Community College Humanities Association. Peter is originally from Chicago
Scott Davis, Board Member, Capitol Hill Restoration Society and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University. Scott Davis is a resident of the District of Columbia and lives in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. He thinks he lives on the best street in the best neighborhood in the best city in the best country in the world – though you are free argue with him. Scott is an urban planner and currently serves as a Visiting Fellow at the RAND Corporation where he is on loan from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Jane Freundel Levey, Consulting Curator, George Washington University Washingtoniana Museum and Managing Editor, Washington History Magazine. Jane Freundel Levey earned an MA in American Studies at George Washington University (1991). She formerly directed Cultural Tourism DC’s Neighborhood Heritage Trails Project. She currently serves as consulting curator at the GWU Museum Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection. She is the managing editor of Washington History, the scholarly periodical of the Historical Society of Washington, DC.
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