Virginia Swift began her career in Charleston working for numerous historic house museums downtown, including the Charleston Museum’s Heyward-Washington House and Middleton Place Foundation’s Edmondston-Alston House. Her passion for history, culture, and the arts, fuels her professional career and dedication to non-profit management. She has experience cataloging local, private art collections, including the retrospective museum […]
Sam Spence is the director of public affairs and oversees the Preservation Society’s communication and strategic initiatives. Born in Houston, Texas, and raised in Richmond, Virginia, and Charlotte, North Carolina, before moving to Charleston nearly 20 years ago, Sam has seen firsthand the impacts of growth and sprawl on historic communities. Before joining the Preservation […]
Mike Olson is the Membership Coordinator, and spends most days working in the PSC’s vast member database. He has spent his adult life living first in Boston, and then Charleston, two cities where history hides in plain sight. Prior to joining the Preservation Society, Mike worked as a school administrator; before that, he spent nearly […]
Amanda Coté is the Director of Finance and Operations and directs all day-to-day ongoing operations for the Preservation Society including financial management and human resource management. Prior to joining the Preservation Society, she worked in nonprofit management for over 12 years, serving as the Director of Operations for the Charleston Promise Neighborhood, and the Director […]
Read the original Live 5 story here. CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – As tourism and development booms in the Lowcountry and Charleston starts to rebound from the pandemic, The Preservation Society of Charleston says they have concerns on three main points. “Coming out of the first year-and-a-half of COVID-19, we’re seeing a real demand for land-use […]
Pressures for change in Charleston have reached a fever pitch. Demand for bigger, more intense new development, record-breaking tourism, and increasing flooding events and sea-level rise will continue to threaten our fragile, historic environment in 2022. Yet we remain optimistic. Change can be managed well when we leverage a passionate and engaged citizenry to persuade our […]